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  • jroberson
    Senior Member
    • May 2008
    • 124
    #1

    Ready to Migrate 1.6 to 1.8 Any advice?

    Well, I'm ready to take the plunge into 1.8. Any advice for me? Do I need to make any changes to my current 1.6 to make it easier to migrate to 1.8? Anything I should just plan on fixing?

    Thanks for any help.
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    • nelsonab
      Senior Member
      Zabbix Certified SpecialistZabbix Certified Professional
      • Sep 2006
      • 1233
      #2
      If you can set up a test server for 1.8 first. Ideally if you can do a test migration on a separate system that would be the best. Also what other upgrades are you planning on doing in the process? Are you looking to do an OS upgrade too? Pay attention to the versions of php and the various libraries needed during the install process. Once you've made the db upgrade you can't go back and if you have php issues you'll be behind the 8-ball so to speak in getting it fixed.
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        • jroberson
          Senior Member
          • May 2008
          • 124
          #3
          I'm "upgrading" hardware but the OS it practically the same (Centos 5.x). I'm moving from two old, failing dell dual 1Ghz + 2GB RAM + SCSI RAID (one DB one Zabbix server) to a converted desktop 2.8Ghz dual core (64bit hopefully) + 4GB RAM + 2 SATA RAID1 (with WD RE4 HDDs). It wouldn't be a problem to use the new system in a test migration first as I've made that mistake before as well. Just wondering if anyone knew of any "gotchas" that I might see before I start banging my head against the monitor.

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            • richlv
              Senior Member
              Zabbix Certified Trainer
              Zabbix Certified SpecialistZabbix Certified Professional
              • Oct 2005
              • 3112
              #4
              wait for 1.8.5, especially if you have any zapcat use
              the advice to test it first is great as well. when testing, grab 1.8 svn head.
              which database ?
              using zabbix agents ? which versions, what are your plans about them ? it might be important that on linux agents now return diskspace in bytes not kb as before, so mixing 1.8 & earlier agent versions will require some trickery.
              check http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/...mportant_notes and further sections.
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                • jroberson
                  Senior Member
                  • May 2008
                  • 124
                  #5
                  Hmm, didn't think about the agents sending different information; so, I'll have to do some testing on those. I'm using MySql for the DB server. No zapcat, so I'm safe there. Is v1.8.5 that close to being released? I need to get this started as those two servers are beginning to fail. I've already had to rebuild one because of a failing SCSI controller. Luckily it was just the Zabbix server not the DB, but I'm seeing errors on that one, too.

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                    • richlv
                      Senior Member
                      Zabbix Certified Trainer
                      Zabbix Certified SpecialistZabbix Certified Professional
                      • Oct 2005
                      • 3112
                      #6
                      1.8.5rc1 was planned to be released already, but, unfortunately, regressions keep creeping up and there's not much enthusiasm in fixing them :/
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