Upgrading Hobbit 4.2 to xymon 4.3.2... 🔗 link

Has anyone performed this upgrade?   I'm concerned about the name change
and directory/file name changes.
I have a production system but no test system to test the upgrade.

TIA,

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Have you tried creating a virtual environment? There's no substitute for being able to test upgrades yourself. I use Sun's VirtualBox - another alternative is VMWare Server. If you use a lightweight distro like Debian, you could use just about any PC to run a virtual machine.

Malcolm

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With any decent PC you shouldn't have a problem running any distro out there
(with VMWare Workstation).

Note that VMWare server is not meant for development in this case - you'll
want to use workstation.  But a great idea!

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Malcolm Hunter <user-b3e590ffeb6d@xymon.invalid>wrote:

On Monday 16 March 2009, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:

Only the default directory for the installation and the web server URL is changed.  So if you keep these the same, nothing will change.

I upgrade some of my monitor servers.  I moved all data to the new default installation directory and did a make install.  I also changed the username from hobbit to xymon.  For the url, I configured apache to redirect all hobbit url's to xymon (/hobbit -> /xymon and idem for the cgi urls).

These are the basic steps.  Actually, I use subversion for the upgrade, but the idea is the same.


Stef

Really? Why is Server not meant for development? I was using it for some time before I discovered VirtualBox. These also have the benefit of being free (i.e. as in free beer).

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I meant in his case.  Any virtualization would work, wokstation is
simplest (mostly for the snapshots as version 2 lacks them).

On 3/17/09, Malcolm Hunter <user-b3e590ffeb6d@xymon.invalid> wrote:

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