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Greetings and happy new year -

After *many* years running Hobbit v4.2, I am finally upgrading to the latest Xymon (and moving to new hardware).

I understand there is an upgrade script during the build process, but I wonder if it might be more "clean" to simply start with a fresh install, copy the RRDs (and associated history logs) to their correct locations, and manually configure the various files.

Thoughts? Am I worrying too much about the upgrade script? Should I just let it do its business?

Thanks for reading, and thanks for such an excellent monitoring system.

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Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME  XXX-XXX-XXXX

I feel your pain.. I just went through it myself.  I just installed a fresh install and then modified all my scripts/variables by hand, comparing side by side.  It is long and arduous, but for our production system I wanted to be extra careful.  It wasn't that bad, and you'll get even more experience.  Kinda like building Linux from Archlinux, Gentoo, or Slackware.  You get to see a more intimate view of the software :)

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Jon Dustin
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 2:17 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] upgrading

Greetings and happy new year -

After *many* years running Hobbit v4.2, I am finally upgrading to the latest Xymon (and moving to new hardware).

I understand there is an upgrade script during the build process, but I wonder if it might be more "clean" to simply start with a fresh install, copy the RRDs (and associated history logs) to their correct locations, and manually configure the various files.

Thoughts? Am I worrying too much about the upgrade script? Should I just let it do its business?

Thanks for reading, and thanks for such an excellent monitoring system.

-- 
 
Jon Dustin - Network Specialist
University of Southern Maine
Portland, ME  XXX-XXX-XXXX

Hi All,

I'm starting my project to upgrade to 4.3.7.   I don't see any
documentation which lists software pre-requisites with minimum versions?
Am I missing something or will 4.3.7 work with whatever versions of
things like rrd, ssl, fing, etc. that I currently have installed?  If I
am missing a list somewhere in the 4.3.7 tar bundle, please have pity on
me and point out where I missed it.

Thanks,
Bruce


 
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On 04-01-2012 00:22, White, Bruce wrote:

If it worked with 4.2, then it will also with with 4.3.

The docs/install.html document describes the necessary pre-requisites.


Regards,
Henrik

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On 01/03/2012 02:17 PM, Jon Dustin wrote:

Where you are most likely to run into trouble IMO (as I'm in the process
of doing this myself) is when the hostname on the new machine is not the
same as the old (not sure if that's what you're planning, but it's what
I'm doing).

It appeared as if adding the hostname of the old machine to /etc/hosts
on the same line as the new machine's current hostname made that a
little less ugly (at least that's what I remember from my pre-holidays
mucking about).

If Henrik has any particular comment about that aspect, I'd love to hear it.

Otherwise, I'd say why not just upgrade? At least try it first as it's
bound to be less effort (and you don't lose your historical data which
sometimes matters).

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Henrik,

Thanks for the clarification and for all you do for this wonderful tool!  Do you have any recommendations for versions I should be running?  Particularly, have you found one version of rrd which works best with the newer releases of Xymon?

    .....Bruce


 
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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Henrik Størner
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:16 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Upgrading from 4.3.0_beta2 to 4.3.7 - Other software?

On 04-01-2012 00:22, White, Bruce wrote:

If it worked with 4.2, then it will also with with 4.3.

The docs/install.html document describes the necessary pre-requisites.


Regards,
Henrik

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:36:29 -0600, "White, Bruce" <user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid>

wrote:

I generally use whatever version comes with my Linux distribution. That
happens to be 1.4.3 (Debian and Ubuntu), but it should work fine with any
recent RRDtool version.


Regards,
Henrik