Guillaume Leonard
2012-10-10 14:45:24 UTC
Guillaume Leonard [http://community.zenoss.org/people/gleonard] created the discussion
"Moving Zenoss Core 2.4.2 to 4.2"
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Hi,
We've been using a pretty old version of Zenoss Core (2.4.2) for quite some time now. It's running on an Ubuntu 9.04 virtual machine. We would like to upgrade to Zenos Core 4.2, however the upgrade path is not really easy.
Because we are using Ubuntu, and the Supported Operating Systems are Red Hat and CentOS (according to the http://wiki.zenoss.org/Install_Zenoss http://wiki.zenoss.org/Install_Zenoss page). All the prerequisites (MySQL, Python, etc) must also be upgraded and I am unsure that they are supported in Ubuntu 9.04, because 9.04 support ended on October 2010.
I have decided to create a new VM running CentOS 6.3 and Zenos Core 4.2. I have installed Zenoss Core using the auto-deploy script :
# wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/zenoss/core-autodeploy/master/core-autodeploy-4.2.sh
# chmod +x core-autodeploy-4.2.sh
# ./core-autodeploy-4.2.sh
Zenos Core 4.x is now running fine on CentOS but it is not configured at all. I would like to migrate my settings from 2.4.2 to 4.2. I have read the documentation about upgrading, but since I am moving on another server, and another OS, I don't think I can follow that path. I have also read on these forums that I cannot use a backup from a previous version and restore it into a newer one.
We do not use ZenPacks. We use Zenoss very lightly...basically we have a list of devices (servers, switchs, vpn, access points, etc) that we use to ping. We have 94 devices and still growing. I don't care about moving the events history, we can loose it.
Since I only want to move the devices, is it possible to migrate only the devices to the new version ? It might be easier to only move the devices and not the entire settings.
We are migrating to 4.x because we want to start using Zenoss more. Therefore, we want to use the latest version and make sure that we don't miss anything.
Thank you !
Guillaume.

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"Moving Zenoss Core 2.4.2 to 4.2"
To view the discussion, visit: http://community.zenoss.org/message/68964#68964
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Hi,
We've been using a pretty old version of Zenoss Core (2.4.2) for quite some time now. It's running on an Ubuntu 9.04 virtual machine. We would like to upgrade to Zenos Core 4.2, however the upgrade path is not really easy.
Because we are using Ubuntu, and the Supported Operating Systems are Red Hat and CentOS (according to the http://wiki.zenoss.org/Install_Zenoss http://wiki.zenoss.org/Install_Zenoss page). All the prerequisites (MySQL, Python, etc) must also be upgraded and I am unsure that they are supported in Ubuntu 9.04, because 9.04 support ended on October 2010.
I have decided to create a new VM running CentOS 6.3 and Zenos Core 4.2. I have installed Zenoss Core using the auto-deploy script :
# wget --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/zenoss/core-autodeploy/master/core-autodeploy-4.2.sh
# chmod +x core-autodeploy-4.2.sh
# ./core-autodeploy-4.2.sh
Zenos Core 4.x is now running fine on CentOS but it is not configured at all. I would like to migrate my settings from 2.4.2 to 4.2. I have read the documentation about upgrading, but since I am moving on another server, and another OS, I don't think I can follow that path. I have also read on these forums that I cannot use a backup from a previous version and restore it into a newer one.
We do not use ZenPacks. We use Zenoss very lightly...basically we have a list of devices (servers, switchs, vpn, access points, etc) that we use to ping. We have 94 devices and still growing. I don't care about moving the events history, we can loose it.
Since I only want to move the devices, is it possible to migrate only the devices to the new version ? It might be easier to only move the devices and not the entire settings.
We are migrating to 4.x because we want to start using Zenoss more. Therefore, we want to use the latest version and make sure that we don't miss anything.
Thank you !
Guillaume.

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