Upgrading 1.6.2. to 1.6.4

[JulianMummery]

Hi,

I have spent about one hour reading the PDF Manual and am very dissapointed at how vague the upgrade instructions are.

I have spent days getting ZABBIX to work perfectly with monitoring works servers and I do not want to risk messing an upgrade up when it is a bit of a guessing game.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to some specific upgrade instructions. Also these instructions should be put as as STICKY thread or at least included into the documentation as I am sure that lots of people ask the same thing again and again.

[MrKen]

I upgraded from 1.6.2 to 1.6.4 last week. It took about 5 minutes from start to finish.

[You should dump your db first just in case - that will add an extra 15/20 minutes to the process. Or just rely on last nights dump/backup. You will only need to import your dumped db if something goes terribly wrong.]

1. Make a temporary directory to store your configs, binaries and phps.

2. In the following, your paths may be different:
Copy configs from /etc/zabbix to your temp
Copy binaries from /usr/local/zabbix/sbin to your temp
Copy phps from /var/www/html/zabbix to your temp

3. Stop Zabbix Server and Mysql

4. Install using the same ./config that you originally used. For example:

[root@zabbix ~]# tar -xzvf zabbix-1.6.4.tar.gz
[root@zabbix ~]# cd zabbix-1.6.4
[root@zabbix ~]# ./configure --enable-server --prefix=/usr/local/zabbix --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-jabber=/usr --with-libcurl=/usr/bin/curl-config
[root@zabbix ~]# make install
[root@zabbix ~]# make clean

5. Start Mysql and add the 3 lines specified in the release notes.

6. Start Zabbix Server.

Piece of cake

MrKen

[Jocelyn]

Hi,
I've followed your instructions exept concerning the ./config (I used the basic one : ./configure --enable-server --with-mysql --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl )

But when I check on my zabbix server, nothing has changed. I'm still in 1.6.2 version. Do you have any idea of why?

[MrKen]

Are you sure you're still on 1.6.2?

On my GUI every page still says 1.6.1

But at the command line ./zabbix_server -V
ZABBIX Server (daemon) v1.6.4 (3 April 2009)
Compilation time: Apr 9 2009 08:49:59

MrKen

[Jocelyn]

At least, I'm sure that the php changes hasn't been done since I still have to click on monitoring to the the subparts.

and for the ./zabbix_server -V , in which directory are you?

[MrKen]

and for the ./zabbix_server -V , in which directory are you?

I'm in /usr/local/zabbix/sbin (where the binaries are).

[Jocelyn]

ok, I'm running the good version but do you know, how to upgrade the web part (I mean seeing 1.6.4 and getting the improvements of navigation etc)?

[MrKen]

I didn't know, but I just found it and now my frontend says 1.6.4

edit /var/www/html/zabbix/include/defines.inc.php you will see it right near the top "define('ZABBIX_VERSION','1.6.4');"
then I restarted zabbix.

re: improvements of navigation, I.m not quite sure what you're referring to. Sorry.

MrKen

[Jocelyn]

Sorry,
I was refering to the tabs. Before (for version previous to 1.6.3), if you wanted from Administration > Users to Monitoring > Dashboard, You had first to click on Monitoring and then to click on Dashboard. But in the last version, you don't need to click on monitoring anymore. You just have to put your mouse on Monitoring and then choose the subpart you're looking for.
I hope you understand what I mean.
Anyway, thanks for your help

[swaterhouse]

edit /var/www/html/zabbix/include/defines.inc.php you will see it right near the top "define('ZABBIX_VERSION','1.6.4');"

That is NOT how you upgrade the front end. The instructions given in the second post are adequate to update the zabbix_server service but you also need to update the php files for the frontend. try the following command (you may have to edit for your paths)

cp -Rf --reply=yes frontends/php/* /var/www/html/zabbix

[Jocelyn]

cp -Rf --reply=yes frontends/php/* /var/www/html/zabbix

Thanks a lot, it's ok now.

Another question I have is about Dashboard: in System status part, one of my host group has more than 30 problems but it seems that the dashboard can't display a number superior to 30. Do you know if there is a way to fix it? I mean to get the real number of problem (if there are 45 problems of severity High, I would like to see 45 and not 30).

[MrKen]

That is NOT how you upgrade the front end. The instructions given in the second post are adequate to update the zabbix_server service but you also need to update the php files for the frontend. try the following command (you may have to edit for your paths)

cp -Rf --reply=yes frontends/php/* /var/www/html/zabbix

How stupid am I? [don't answer that!]

Thanks very much swaterhouse, I stand corrected. All this time I've been upgrading the zabbix-server service but still running the old frontend.

MrKen

[chivo]

After upgrade issues with the dashboard

Hello,

I upgraded from 1.6.2 to 1.6.4. I grabbed the source and built RPMs, upgrading the server and web interface on their respective servers. One problem I had was that I had to up the memory_limit setting in the php.ini from 16M. I set it to 24M and it seems to be working, but perhaps a note should be made in the release notes with the appropriate value.


Thanks

[Jocelyn]

I upgraded from 1.6.2 to 1.6.4. I grabbed the source and built RPMs, upgrading the server and web interface on their respective servers. One problem I had was that I had to up the memory_limit setting in the php.ini from 16M. I set it to 24M and it seems to be working, but perhaps a note should be made in the release notes with the appropriate value.

I got the same issue but it depends on what you do and not of the version. I'm note sure but I think that the memory_limit already existed before 1.6.4. Thus, there would not have any use to add this in the release notes.

[Jeffj]

Just wanted to say thanks to MrKen and swaterhouse. With your post here I was able to upgrade from 1.6.1 to 1.6.4 in about 10 min. Being a windows guy some times this stuff take me a while but with your help here it was a brezze.

If they could ever get the manual up to speed for people like me I think Zabbix would really take off.

Jeff