[Xymon] Xymon 4.3.2 released

[Nick Camaldi]

If i try and experiment on the same box (making sure everything is backed up)
Is the upgrade process an in-place upgrade?
 
During the the ./configure do i specifiy the current install directory or a new directory?
 
 
If i do it on a test vm 
 where am i copying the files to and will i need to manually change everything or do i run the upgrade script. 
 
I'm not following the upgrade procedure.
 
Nick
 
> To: willowbrookmagic at hotmail.com
> Subject: RE: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.2 released
> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 13:33:37 +0200
> From: henrik at hswn.dk
> CC: xymon at xymon.com
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 13:22:21 -0400, Nick Camaldi
> <willowbrookmagic at hotmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > I inherited the Xymon Server from a former employee, who was using 4.3.0
> > beta2
> > he had the installation in /opt/admin/xymon/linux/4.3.0-beta2/
> > The questions i have is this, I want to make sure i don't mess this up
> 
> please post this question to the mailing list - there are a lot more
> people there who can help with this. I've taken the liberty of cc'ing the
> mailing list here.
> 
> My quick answer would be:
> 
> 0) Use a test system - Virtualbox and VMware Player are free, and let you
> setup a dedicated system for testing the new Xymon version without having
> to install new hardware.
> 1) Install the new Xymon version into a new directory. Dont bother with
> how the old directory layout was - create a setup that you believe is
> right.
> 2) Copy the configuration files over from the old setup. You can see in
> the docs/Renaming-430.txt directory what the mapping is between the old and
> the new files. There shouldn't be any config files other than those in the
> ~hobbit/server/etc/ directory, and perhaps some extensions in
> ~hobbit/server/ext/
> 3) Change a couple of the clients on the servers you monitor so they send
> data to both the old system and the new test system. Just to make sure that
> client handling works OK.
> 4) When you're confident that the new setup works, shutdown the old Hobbit
> installation, copy the setup from your virtual server over to the
> production system, and everything should work.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
 		 	   		  
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