[hobbit] Upgrading Hobbit

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:55:02AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
> I attempting to determine the best method to upgrade my hobbit
> 4.2-alpha-20060527 to the 4.2 version w/o losing history and keeping
> monitoring disruption to a minimum.  Currently hobbit is installed at
> /home/hobbit.

Grab the hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz file, unpack it and apply the allinone
patch. Configure it just like you did for the current install. Run
"make" to build it, stop your current Hobbit, run "make install"
and start Hobbit.

If you do want to use the RPM version of Hobbit as you wrote elsewhere,
the directories will probably be different from what you have now.
Moving the old files in data/{hist,histlogs,rrd} should be OK, and you
can also copy the bb-hosts, hobbit-alerts.cfg, hobbit-clients.cfg files
over from the old server/etc directory. If you made any changes to 
hobbitserver.cfg, however, those will have to be hand-made in the new
setup.  And the Apache setup will probably also have to be tuned to the
new directory layout.


Regards,
Henrik