User:Daveh/Zabbix Upgrade

Notes on upgrading Zabbix from 1.8 to 2.4.

• Backup all existing Zabbix files (on server and clients)

• Database
• Configuration
• Web files
• Binaries
• init.d script

• Install Zabbix server on content3

• Install packages:

      rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.4/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-2.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm
      yum install zabbix
      yum install zabbix-agent
      yum install zabbix-get
      yum install zabbix-server-mysql
      yum install zabbix-web-mysql

• Upgrade database (download 2.4.6 Zabbix source)

      mysql -u user -p zabbix < dbpatches/2.0/mysql/patch.sql

• Install Zabbix agents on all Servers

• Install packages:

      rpm -ivh http://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/2.4/rhel/6/x86_64/zabbix-release-2.4-1.el6.noarch.rpm
      yum install zabbix
      yum install zabbix-agent
      yum install zabbix-get

• Modify init.d scripts

• Stop old zabbix agent
• Remove old scripts (zabbix_agentd, zabbix_server)
• Set new scripts to run on reboot:

      chkconfig --level 345 zabbix-server on
      chkconfig --level 345 zabbix-agent on

• Edit config to set proper PID file (uncomment the line # PidFile = ....).