GUI shows wrong version number?

[flatpack]

Hi

We had an installation of Zabbix monitoring a few nodes and want to progress the project. Think it was 1.8.5 - well that's what the screens say at the bottom of each page.

We decided to upgrade to 1.8.10 before starting to add more nodes but upgrade doesn't seem to have worked OK. It's running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64 and we went through the docs on how to do it. Backed stuff up, stopped server, ran configure (no errors reported) then install (again no errors reported but just stopped at the end of a list of directories, no error messages though?). The binary hadn't been updated at /usr/sbin so moved it manually and also copied over the frontend php files to the apache root directory but still showing at 1.8.5 on the gui screens.

Now maybe the upgrade screwed up, how can we check?, or where is the version number shown on the gui pages coming from?

Thanks for any help or guidance.

Mart

[zychonatic]

hi,

have you updated also the php files (the GUI itself), or have you just updated the binaries?

You can check your server-version by simple execute: zabbix_server --version on your system. If this is 1.8.10, than you have to simple update the GUI ("frontend" in the download-zip) and the GUI version is correct.

br matthias

[flatpack]

Hi

Yes we copied the files from frontend/php to the root of the webserver and we checked the file sizes to make sure they had copied over. Looking at the php though in page_footer.php its a variable(?) ZABBIX_VERSION to show the version. My php is nowhere near good enough to work out where that comes from - haven't touched anything since Pascal and C++ years ago.

The zabbix_server shows as:

Zabbix Server v1.8.10 (revision 24303) (28 December 2011)
Compilation time: Jan 30 2012 15:05:27

Previously, before we had manually copied the new binary into the directory /usr/sbin, the version was reporting:

Zabbix Server (daemon) v1.8.1 (revision 9702) (27 January 2010)
Compilation time: Apr 6 2010 01:55:32

Now we have never had that early a version on the server and hadn't installed from a Ubuntu repository so very strange?

Where does the version number get read from that shows on the GUI pages?

How can we check that the install worked OK - we can see nodes and status and are getting alerts from the server but don't want to build on a doubtful installation as this needs to cover our entire site. Is there an install logfile to check? Couldn't see anything in the /var/log and the zabbix log just seems to report node activity on the server.

Thanks for your help

Mart

[flatpack]

Hi

Anyone any ideas on this as we need to progress this and we need to get to the bottom of the problem.

Thanks

Mart

[richlv]

it is likely that package installation used a different directory for zabbix frontend files, so you'd have to figure out where is that and how is it configured (for example, webserver alias is likely)

[flatpack]

Hi

We are certain we have the correct directory as we have searched for named php files and they only exist either in the source directory or the web server root directory.

Thanks for the input though.

Anyone with any other thoughts or ideas please?

Thanks

Martyn