Moving from appliance to a 'new installation'

[mihab]

Hi all

We're running Zabbix server 2.4 based on a 'Zabbix appliance' that is using OpenSuse. We have more that 200 host configured on it.
We tried to do an upgrade but it looks like on OpenSuse there is not easy set-up, so we are thinking of moving to a new installation.

Our suggestion is to create a new Zabbix installation version 3.4 based on CentOS and MySQL, following basic installation guide.
But we need to import all configuration and database from existing 2.4 version to a new one running on 3.4.
Can anyone please explain me how can we do this ? Creating backup of existing database and restoring it on a new server will do the trick ? What about all the settings that are configured on Zabbix (alerts, triggers, hosts etc) do they come with database import ?

Also, would it work to import database from Zabbix 2.4 directly to 3.4 or are there any additional steps to perform ?

So basically we would like to move existing Zabbix 2.4 running on Opensuse (appliance) to a new server running Zabbix 3.4 CentOS.

Any help how can we do this will be gladly appreciated.

Thank you all in advance

Regards,
Mike

[volter]

All the configuration, except for daemon configuration, frontend configuration (zabbix.conf.php) and netsnmp configuration are in the database.

If you are using scripts of whatever kind, you must copy them too.

[mihab]

Thank you. Can we install the newest version 3.4 and then simply import database from 2.4 wil this work or is better to install 2.4, do the import and the upgrade database ?

Best regards,
Mike

[m_d_c13]

Direct upgrade to Zabbix 3.4 is possible from Zabbix 3.2.x, 3.0.x, 2.4.x, 2.2.x and 2.0.x. (this is from zabbix documentation). First install zabbix after that inport database and then start zabbix-server. Zabbix will automatically make changes in the database.

[mihab]

Great, thank you !

Best regards,
Mike