How to upgrade a plugin ?

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French_Poul
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How to upgrade a plugin ?

Post by French_Poul »

Hello,

I would like to know how to upgrade a plugin without lose my work. For example for the monitor plugin.

Thanks!
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Post by TheWitness »

The route that we typically take is to simply copy over the old plugin directory with the new one, and then goto Plugin Management. In most cases, the upgrade is automatic at that point.

If you are concerned, make sure you make first a backup of your database, second, make a backup of your plugin.

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Post by French_Poul »

Ok thank you!
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Cacti version : 0.8.7e
Plugin Architecture : 2.6
Plugins : Settings 0.5, Monitor 0.8.2, Thresholds 0.4.1, Nectar 0.26, Discovery 0.9, Realtime 0.32, Update 0.4, Weathermap 0.97a, Hostinfo 0.2
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Post by Voiper99 »

Is there a way to automatically detect when an update has been released for a plugin?

Thank you.
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