Dear Opsview group I just wanted to share my experiences on my upgrade of Opsview from 3.1.0 to 3.5 with Ubuntu 8.04..
As some of you have discovered the Debian Based packages have a dependency issue when doing an upgrade from a previous version of Opsview. Some folks have reported the easiest workaround is to do the following dpkg -r --force-all opsview-base aptitude install Opsview This did NOT work for us on Ubuntu 8.04 We use Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and this sequence of commands did not fully work for us, the process failed over not being able to start nrpe (I think that was the error). Maybe it's a difference between Debian and Ubuntu or differences between versions of Ubuntu but here is what worked for us. This DID work for us on Ubuntu 8.04 dpkg -r --force-all opsview-core apt-get update apt-get -f install apt-get install opsview Also I suggest reading the upgrade notes which I now feel dumb for not doing. I did an upgrade pretty quickly on a testing system so I expected the same once I tried it in production. But once I did the upgrade in production the database changes took about 3 hours to run. A mass delete in the runtime database took a long time to complete. The upgrade notes had some helpful pre-upgrade instructions that would have saved me some downtime. Anyway I just wanted to share what worked for us for Ubuntu 8.04 in case others have similar issues. The new interface looks great so the upgrade hassles were well worth it. James Whittington VC3, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Whittington Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 12:00 PM To: Opsview Users Subject: Re: [opsview-users] Issues upgrading from Opsview 3.1.0 to 3.5 ? Duncan, This isn't the best way to do the upgrade but it seemed to work. ## Removed old opsview-core package dpkg -r --force-all opsview-core ## Get updated packages apt-get update ## Fix broken dependencies which seemed to upgrade Opsview-core apt-get -f install ## Install the rest of the Opsview packages apt-get install opsview I only tried this in testing just to see if it would work but I'll wait to see if you guys come up with a better solution before I do it for real. I love the new graphing framework and how you can mouse over datapoints and drill into specific time ranges. Hopefully you guys will be able to get the graphs to display in localtime and not UTC but that is a minor thing. Another thing I just noticed, how to you get to the new Events screen, the screen is there I just don't see any menu items to get to it? James Whittington VC3, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Duncan Ferguson Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 12:26 PM To: Opsview Users Subject: Re: [opsview-users] Issues upgrading from Opsview 3.1.0 to 3.5 ? On 27 Nov 2009, at 16:22, James Whittington wrote: > I was eager to see the new web interface in Opsview 3.5 so I tested > the upgrade on our testing instance of Opsview and ran across some > issues. > We are using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, we have been on Opsview 3.1.0. > I can't quite tell what exactly the conflict is. > I looked over the upgrading Opsview area but didn't see anything > describing this error. This is because some of the images we use have moved from one package to another (base to core). Deb packages do not like one file being owned by two packages (whereas rpm and pkg files allow it). The problem in this case is that the new opsview-core deb is being installed before the old opsview-base deb is removed, showing up this conflict. This is now fixed for 3.5.1 and I'll try to sort out a workaround in the meantime. Potentially this could affect anyone upgrading from 2.14, 3.0, 3.1 or 3.2 to 3.5 Duncs -- Duncan Ferguson Senior Developer _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users _______________________________________________ Opsview-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opsview.org/lists/listinfo/opsview-users
