[hobbit] Hobbit upgrade process question

[Hubbard, Greg L]

One has to wonder what has gone on in the Web server CGI directories.  I
believe I went and deleted everything Hobbit from mine before I
re-installed from scratch.


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	From: Maschino, Shawn (GE Indust, Plastics)
[mailto:Shawn.Maschino at ge.com] 
	Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:43 PM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit upgrade process question
	
	
	    Thanks for the tips guys (Greg and Francesco).
	 
	    One other thing I've noticed is when clicking on a status
column to get the details (calling bb-hostsvc.sh) I now get a "Status
not available" returned every time.  Info and trends work, but none of
the tests like conn or disk.  Any ideas?

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	From: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com] 
	Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:42 PM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit upgrade process question
	
	
	Hobbit works very hard to honor any changes that you have made.
I think you will find that this type of upgrade is more trouble than it
is worth.  (I did this first myself and had the same problems).
	 
	Another approach to consider is this:
	 
	a) restore your old directories, make sure the old hobbit is
working
	 
	b) stop the old hobbit
	 
	c) rename the server and client directories.  make a backup copy
of the data directory
	 
	d) install new Hobbit as a new install, and start it up.
	 
	e) move the files over that you KNOW need to move over, like
bb-hosts, etc.
	 
	f) manually diff/merge your other files in server/etc with the
new system.
	 
	g) update any web pages you might have changed
	 
	As you work through the changes, you will end up with the new
features and any customizations you have made that are still relevant.
It only took me a couple of hours, and I had added a lot of custom
graphs and changed the "skins" a little.
	 
	GLH
	
	

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		From: Maschino, Shawn (GE Indust, Plastics)
[mailto:Shawn.Maschino at ge.com] 
		Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 12:27 PM
		To: hobbit at hswn.dk
		Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit upgrade process question
		
		
		    Hi all.  I was running Hobbit 4.1.2 on a Red Hat
Linux server, and tried to upgrade to 4.2.0.  Since I didn't see any
documentation on doing the upgrade, I stopped Hobbit and Apache, backed
up my current configs and files, and ran the install process for 4.2.0
to be placed in the same location 4.1.2 was running.
		 
		    Everything seemed to work, at the bottom of the
screen I now see "Hobbit Monitor 4.2.0
<http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/> " as the version, but none of the
new menus or options are appearing.  For instance under "Views" I still
have "NK View", not critical systems view.  NK View still goes to the
bbnk.html page, not the new cgi scripts.  The cgi files are in the
cgi-bin directory, just no menu items or links to them.  If I directly
go to them they seem to work fine.
		 
		    Does anyone know where I may have gone wrong on
this?  Thanks.
		 
		Shawn

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