Issue Upgrading zabbix-server-mysql and zabbix-web-mysql to 5.4 (from 5.0) - CentOS 7

[sremich]

Hi All,

This is my first post so I apologize if this is redundant, I searched for this topic but couldn't find it anywhere.

Basically the issue that I'm running into is that I've followed the instructions on https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...es/rhel_centos but every time I try to run 'yum upgrade zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql' It responds with either 'no packages marked for update'

I've been through a lot of forums that advised various things.

I've uninstalled the RHEL7/5.4 repo and then reinstalled it through various methods. I've installed it through the method in the documentation:

rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.4/r...el7.noarch.rpm

and through yum:

yum install https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/5.4/r...el7.noarch.rpm

and then after this I run the following to clean the repositories:

yum clean all

But every time it doesn't seem to like what I'm giving it. When I do a yum list I get the following return:

[root@zabbix unifiZabbix]# yum list | grep zabbix-server
zabbix-server-mysql.x86_64 5.0.15-1.el7 @zabbix

To me this would indicate that yum for some reason can't see the 5.4 package for that? It installed the agent just fine for whatever reason which I can see in the following return:

[root@zabbix unifiZabbix]# yum list | grep zabbix-agent
zabbix-agent.x86_64 5.4.4-1.el7 @zabbix
pcp-export-zabbix-agent.x86_64 4.3.2-13.el7_9 updates
zabbix-agent2.x86_64 5.4.4-1.el7 zabbix

and

[root@zabbix unifiZabbix]# yum list installed | grep zabbix-agent
zabbix-agent.x86_64 5.4.4-1.el7 @zabbix

Am I installing the repo incorrectly? Did I miss a memo about zabbix-agent being in a different repo? Any information any one can provide is both helpful and appreciated!

Thanks,
Stephen

[tim.mooney]

Hi Stephen-

You're not doing anything wrong.

The problem is that the official Zabbix packages dropped support for RHEL 7 (and re-spins, like CentOS 7) for the server and the web-based components. You can continue to run the 5.0 LTS release on CentOS 7.x, but you can't upgrade the server or web front end to 5.4.x or later using the official packages. RHEL 7.x/CentOS 7.x will likely continue to receive support for agent or agent2 packages even into Zabbix 6.x, but the zabbix-server and web front end won't.

See this blog post: https://blog.zabbix.com/staying-up-t...ackages/12806/

Tim

[sremich]

Hi Tim,

Thank you so much for your reply and the link to the blogpost! I'm actually trying to import some templates for some Unify Hardware that is only compatible with 5.4 so I'm going to finally make that jump to CentOS8 and update Zabbix to 5.4

Again, thanks so much for the feedback!

Stephen

[tim.mooney]

You're welcome.

Remember that CentOS 8 is no longer a re-spin of Red Hat 8. It's more like something between Fedora and RHEL.

Quite a few software developers that were supporting CentOS 8 and treating it the same as RHEL 8 have stopped supporting CentOS 8. Some people that were using CentOS 8 have moved either to Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux. I haven't seen if the Zabbix developers plan to include Rocky Linux or Alma in their support matrix, but I would be careful about deploying anything on CentOS 8 these days.