About Zabbix Server
Zabbix is a free and open source network monitoring Software tool which is used to monitor and track the availability and performance of your IT infrastracture: servers, network devices and other IT assets.
In this tutorial we will cover how to upgrade Zabbix Server 3.4.x to 4.0.x on CentOS 7 or RHEL 7. those steps can be used also to upgrade Zabbix Server 3.2.x to 3.4.x or to 4.0.x.
1./ Stop Zabbix Server Daemon
– Stop Zabbix Server to make sure that no new data is inserted into database:
# systemctl stop zabbix-server
2./ Back up the existing Zabbix database
– Create a directory where we will backup the Zabbix Server database and configuration Files:
# mkdir /opt/zabbix-backup/
– Use the following command to backup the Zabbix Server database, replace zabbixdb with the name of your Zabbix Server database:
# mysqldump -u root -p zabbixdb > /opt/zabbix-backup/zabbixdb.sql
Enter password:
3./ Back up configuration files, PHP files and Zabbix binaries
Make a backup copy of Zabbix binaries, configuration files and the PHP file directory.
– To backup the Zabbix Server configuration files use the following command:
# cp /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf /opt/zabbix-backup/ # cp /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf /opt/zabbix-backup/ # cp /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf /opt/zabbix-backup/
– To backup the PHP files and Zabbix Server binaries use the following command:
# cp -R /usr/share/zabbix/ /opt/zabbix-backup/ # cp -R /usr/share/doc/zabbix-* /opt/zabbix-backup/
4./ Update Zabbix Server repository configuration package
– Upgrade the Zabbix current repository package release as below:
# rpm -Uvh https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-4.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm Retrieving https://repo.zabbix.com/zabbix/4.0/rhel/7/x86_64/zabbix-release-4.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm Preparing... ################################# [100%] Updating / installing... 1:zabbix-release-4.0-1.el7 ################################# [ 50%] Cleaning up / removing... 2:zabbix-release-3.4-1.el7.centos ################################# [100%]
5./ Upgrade Zabbix Server components
– To upgrade Zabbix Server components, run the following commands:
# yum clean all # yum upgrade zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql zabbix-agent
6./ Start Zabbix Server Daemon
# systemctl start zabbix-server
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8 comments
I seem to have a problem when going from 3.2 to 4, After the upgrade I get and error message saying that the database is the wrong version. Do i have to do 3.2->3.4->4.0 or 3.2->4.0 is ok?
Hi Yan,
You need to upgrade from the version 3.2 to 3.4 and after that upgrade to 4.x
Hi,
I get “No packages marked for update” after running step 5, please can you advise?
Thanks.
Hi, I’ve followed the above steps but after step 5 I just get “No packages marked for update” – please can you help?
Hi rich,
you need to clean the yum repository and try again
Thanks, that worked. I’m a Linux newbie.
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Thanks, in zabbix page does not say anything about clean!