Upgrading from Zabbix 1.0 to Zabbix 1.1 Alpha 12

[misterdan]

Hi everybody.

I have been running Zabbix for a year or so now and it forms the backbone of our monitoring.

I would now like to upgrade a test machine I have from zabbix 1.0 to zabbix 1.1 alpha 12, but I'm not sure exactly how to go about this.

I downloaded the alpha12.tar.gz and so far I have modified data/images.sql with the correct paths on my system and applied it. Which patch.sql should I apply next from the 'upgrades' directory? alpha11 to alpha12? I am currently on version 1.0.

When I try to compile the new binaries the ./configure step works fine but the 'make' step says it has nothing to do!

Can anyone help me with a straightforward description of upgrading from zabbix-1.0 to zabbix-1.1 alpha 12?

Thanks in advance.

[James Wells]

Greetings,

When you run the configure script, you need to specify if you want it to build the agent or the server using --enable-server or --enable-agent. Without one of those arguments, the make has nothing to do.

From what I have seen there have been a lot of database schema changes from 1.0 through Alpha12, you could certainly go through the upgrade procedure, which would basically require you to go through each database patch script, or you could backup your existing DB, re-create it with using the Alpha12 schema and then simply re-import it. Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages.

My recommendation would be to run through the patch scripts, one at a time. If you go thir route, I would strongly urge you to read through each one before you run it though so you know what it is going to do to your DB. You will still want to backup your DB before doing this of course.

[misterdan]

Thanks very much James. This answers my question.

Dan

[misterdan]

Just a little bit of extra information for anyone who may have had this problem.

After running the ./configure script with --enable-server or --enable-agent the binaries are not put in the bin directory as they used to be. Instead they are created in src/zabbix_server and src/zabbix_agent.