[Xymon] upgrading

[Ryan Novosielski]

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

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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