updating from 2.0.6 rpm to 2.2 from source

[johansen]

hello,

Recently we have installed a new zabbix env. with 2.0.6 with the precompiled rpm binary directly from opensuse.
We are running SLES and there is no precompiled zabbix rpm package available for sles yet for 2.2

Now there are two ways: either waiting for 2.2 to be available in the repo or try the update from source package but there are a few differences between installation of rpm and if you install from source so we are wondering if this is possible and if anybody tried yet?

[syndeysider]

Hey mate..

A bit old I know, but did you ever come right compiling from source?

I see it's available in the OpenSuSe repo now, but i'd still perfer to compile from source.

[johansen]

yes, we were able to compile it by our own which makes it more flexible for e.g. patching just in case.

we are runnig sles 4 vmware and were required to install a few development packages before able to compile (this of course depends on what you want to compile!):

packages:

libcurl-devel
net-snmp-devel
libxml2-devel
openipmi-devel
openldap2-devel
lzo-devel
MySQL-client
MySQL-shared
MySQL-devel
iksemel
iksemel-devel

testerver:/tmp/zabbix/zabbix-2.2.1 # ./configure --enable-server --enable-proxy --enable-agent --with-mysql --enable-ipv6 --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl --with-libxml2 --with-jabber --with-ldap –-with-openipmi –-prefix=/usr

[aib]

testerver:/tmp/zabbix/zabbix-2.2.1 # ./configure --enable-server --enable-proxy --enable-agent --with-mysql --enable-ipv6 --with-net-snmp --with-libcurl --with-libxml2 --with-jabber --with-ldap –-with-openipmi –-prefix=/usr

I can understand when one server has Server + Agent / Proxy + Agent.
But why do you need Server + Proxy + Agent on the same server?

[steveboyson]

Have you ever tried to compile with JMX support? I wonder what devel packages are needed for that since my compile attempts are all failing.

Probably the "openjdk" or "icetea" packages provided by Debian are a bad choice and I should go using the official Oracle Java JDKs.

Anyone?

[johansen]

I can understand when one server has Server + Agent / Proxy + Agent.
But why do you need Server + Proxy + Agent on the same server?

Because all our zabbix servers have the same OS and packages available so I only need to compile once and can copy the binaries from one to the other.

Have you ever tried to compile with JMX support? I wonder what devel packages are needed for that since my compile attempts are all failing.
Probably the "openjdk" or "icetea" packages provided by Debian are a bad choice and I should go using the official Oracle Java JDKs.
Anyone?

never tried it yet