Upgrading Zabbix from 1.8.1 to 1.8.10

[JPtheGeezer]

Hi,

I would like to know what steps are involved to perform the upgrade to the latest version. I have searched throughout the manual and web and cannot find definitive information that explicitly shows each step required to upgrade.

Can somebody assist please?

From what I can see, upgrading from 1.8.1 to 1.8.10 is not a major upgrade and the documentation says "upgrading from 1.8.1 to 1.8.3 can be performed in single step" but that step is not shown. I am assuming that my requirement fits in line with this statement, so what is this magical step?

Thank you.

[dougbee]

I would expect it to be a subset of your initial installation steps. I typically:

1. Stop the Zabbix server, so that no new data is being written to the database.
2. Backup your data as desired (database as well as your current Zabbix server directory, which includes all binaries and frontends)
3. Download the new Zabbix 1.8.10 source
4. Run the same ./configure command you did with your initial 1.8.1 install.
5. Run "make install" to install the newly compiled binaries.
6. Copy the new frontend files from the 1.8.10 source to the location of your existing frontend files.
7. Restart the Zabbix server.

[JPtheGeezer]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, however when I installed Zabbix I only used the 'apt-get install' command and it got the binaries and installed from the local mirror.

How would I proceed with the upgrade?

[dougbee]

That means you installed a precompiled binary, so you're somewhat at the mercy of your chosen package repository. Is it Debian? The current stable (Debian 6.0, squeeze) is only at 1.8.2.

In theory you could get the .deb from the unstable Debian repository, but I'd be quite hesitant to do that in a production environment. What repository are you using for apt?

The other option is to install the prepackaged version and just compile the source, as indicated in the manual. This would require you to manually maintain the upgrades on your own, but gives the advantage of choosing which version you want to install.