Need advise on upgrading.

[dpsantos]

Can anyone or Alexei advise the upgrade process for someone using the Alpha7 series in 60 machines?


Thank You.

Duarte Santos

[Alexei]

I woudn't recommend immediate upgrade just after release of new version. Please, wait at least week or two to be confident that the version works.

Come on, v1.1 is still in alpha phase!

[dpsantos]

But.............

Ok... i trust you. My problem is that the hard linked graphics and the SLA's... are ALL i need!!
And the worst part.... is that i need to dump cactus until the end of the week....

[Alexei]

Brief upgrade procedure (1.1alpha7 -> 1.1alpha8):

1. No DB patches required
2. Recompile all binaries
3. Upgrade server binaries
4. Upgrade front-end files

If you want to use new active checks then the following steps are required, optional otherwise:

4. Install new agent binaries
5. IMPORTANT: New 1.1alpha8 agent requires several mandatory parameters: Hostname, ServerPort. Also, note that first IP from parameter Server will be used for sending active checks to.

[rootlinux]

I am upgrading from 1.1aplpha4 to 1.1alpha7 and when I start zabbix_server, I got the following error messages in /var/log/zabbix_server.log as below: -

012821:20050515:003846 Starting zabbix_server...
012823:20050515:003846 server #1 started [Alerter]
012824:20050515:003846 server #2 started [nodata() calculator]
012826:20050515:003846 server #3 started [ICMP pinger]
012824:20050515:003846 Query::select distinct f.itemid,f.functionid,f.parameter from functions f, items i,hosts h where h.hostid=i.hostid and ((h.status=0 and h.available!=2) or (h.status=0 and h.available=2 and h.disable_until<1116088726)) and i.itemid=f.itemid and f.function='nodata' and i.lastclock+f.parameter<=1116088726 and i.status=0 and i.type=2 and (f.lastvalue<>1 or f.lastvalue is NULL)
012824:20050515:003846 Query failed:Unknown column 'h.available' in 'where clause' [1054]
012830:20050515:003846 server #5 started [Trapper]
012831:20050515:003846 server #6 started [Trapper]
012821:20050515:003846 One child process died. Exiting ...
012821:20050515:003846 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
012823:20050515:003846 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
012826:20050515:003846 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
012828:20050515:003846 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
012831:20050515:003846 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
012831:20050515:003846 Cannot kill process. PID=[12824] [No such process]
012831:20050515:003846 Cannot kill process. PID=[12826] [No such process]
012830:20050515:003846 Got QUIT or INT or TERM or PIPE signal. Exiting...
012831:20050515:003846 Cannot kill process. PID=[12828] [No such process]
012830:20050515:003846 Cannot kill process. PID=[12823] [No such process]
012831:20050515:003846 Cannot remove PID file [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] [No such file or directory]
012830:20050515:003846 Cannot kill process. PID=[12824] [No such process]
012830:20050515:003846 Cannot kill process. PID=[12826] [No such process]
012830:20050515:003846 Cannot kill process. PID=[12828] [No such process]
012830:20050515:003846 Cannot remove PID file [/var/tmp/zabbix_server.pid] [No such file or directory]

[Alexei]

I am upgrading from 1.1aplpha4 to 1.1alpha7 and when I start zabbix_server, I got the following error messages

Apply upgrades/dbpatches/1.1alpha4_to_1.1alpha5 patches!