Hi Nick,
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:22:21 -0400, Nick Camaldi <willowbrookmagic at hotmail.com> wrote: [...]
I inherited the Xymon Server from a former employee, who was using 4.3.0 beta2 he had the installation in /opt/admin/xymon/linux/4.3.0-beta2/ The questions i have is this, I want to make sure i don't mess this up
please post this question to the mailing list - there are a lot more people there who can help with this. I've taken the liberty of cc'ing the mailing list here.
My quick answer would be:
- Use a test system - Virtualbox and VMware Player are free, and let you setup a dedicated system for testing the new Xymon version without having to install new hardware.
- Install the new Xymon version into a new directory. Dont bother with how the old directory layout was - create a setup that you believe is right.
- Copy the configuration files over from the old setup. You can see in the docs/Renaming-430.txt directory what the mapping is between the old and the new files. There shouldn't be any config files other than those in the ~hobbit/server/etc/ directory, and perhaps some extensions in ~hobbit/server/ext/
- Change a couple of the clients on the servers you monitor so they send data to both the old system and the new test system. Just to make sure that client handling works OK.
- When you're confident that the new setup works, shutdown the old Hobbit installation, copy the setup from your virtual server over to the production system, and everything should work.
Regards, Henrik
If i try and experiment on the same box (making sure everything is backed up) Is the upgrade process an in-place upgrade?
During the the ./configure do i specifiy the current install directory or a new directory?
If i do it on a test vm where am i copying the files to and will i need to manually change everything or do i run the upgrade script.
I'm not following the upgrade procedure.
Nick
To: willowbrookmagic at hotmail.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.2 released Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:33:37 +0200 From: henrik at hswn.dk CC: xymon at xymon.com
Hi Nick,
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:22:21 -0400, Nick Camaldi <willowbrookmagic at hotmail.com> wrote: [...]
I inherited the Xymon Server from a former employee, who was using 4.3.0 beta2 he had the installation in /opt/admin/xymon/linux/4.3.0-beta2/ The questions i have is this, I want to make sure i don't mess this up
please post this question to the mailing list - there are a lot more people there who can help with this. I've taken the liberty of cc'ing the mailing list here.
My quick answer would be:
- Use a test system - Virtualbox and VMware Player are free, and let you setup a dedicated system for testing the new Xymon version without having to install new hardware.
- Install the new Xymon version into a new directory. Dont bother with how the old directory layout was - create a setup that you believe is right.
- Copy the configuration files over from the old setup. You can see in the docs/Renaming-430.txt directory what the mapping is between the old and the new files. There shouldn't be any config files other than those in the ~hobbit/server/etc/ directory, and perhaps some extensions in ~hobbit/server/ext/
- Change a couple of the clients on the servers you monitor so they send data to both the old system and the new test system. Just to make sure that client handling works OK.
- When you're confident that the new setup works, shutdown the old Hobbit installation, copy the setup from your virtual server over to the production system, and everything should work.
Regards, Henrik
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