Upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1

[smartinez]

It seems that upgrading to 8.1 is the logical thing to do (per the change log) even though I just installed 8.0. Is there a process that I should adhere to in order to ensure a successful upgrade?

Thanks!

-Samson

[jvanhambelgium]

Hi,

Basically I made a copy of all my scripts that I use.
I've adjusted the /include/config.php with the correct database/username/password settings

And then placed all files from the new 0.8.1 distribution to my production directories, you keep offcourse the rra/log/scripts directories
You probably might redo a "chmod -R 777" (I know, really unsafe...)and "chown -R" on the "rra" directory, the "log" directory to make sure suddently no permission problems show up...
Something like this should do the trick, you can also backup your database with a dump if you wish...

I did not miss 1 polling with this upgrade (and I poll every minute)


Regards,
Jan

[kevinz]

Does it matter that the cacti.sql files from 0.8 and 0.8.1 differ? Are the differences ignored by the newer version if they're not present in the MySQL database?

-Kevin

[jvanhambelgium]

Kevinz,

I don't believe anything special changed on the database-layout for this 0.8.1 upgrade since I came from the official 0.8 release
I did not import the new tables myself.
I did not loose anything and so far have not encountered any "bug"

Should I have done this ?

Regards,
Jan

[raX]

Does it matter that the cacti.sql files from 0.8 and 0.8.1 differ? Are the differences ignored by the newer version if they're not present in the MySQL database?

Just to clarify, no it does not matter. Just as 0.6.x, table changes between stable versions will be automatically taken care of upon an upgrade.

-Ian

[boostdummy]

i was running 0.8 before and i thought it might be a good idea to goto 0.81 but....there is something strange, if i goto look at my graphs THERE NONE, even when i goto preview mode there still nothing but previous and next bar says "Showing Rows 1 to 10 of 22 " which is right for my graphs.

Can anyone help, if i can avoid loosing anything i want to, if i cant OWELL

[raX]

Perhaps you are confusing "no graphs" with broken graphs. Make sure you copied your .rrd files from the old 'rra/' directory to the new. Also make sure the web server can read those files. If you want additional debug information, go to "Graph Management", select a graph and click "Turn Graph Debug On".

Hope this helps.

-Ian

[boostdummy]

thanks but that is not the problem, when i goto Graph Management there are no graphs there ??? this is getting to the point where i am going to delete cacti and the database and start from fress and just cut my losses.

Maybe i will put it where it is supposed to be this time, in linux.

[egarnel]

I had to loosen up the permissions on the rra.log file and log directory ofter I upgraded to 8.1 in order to see the graphs.

I unchecked the graph option under settings | logging and then was able to choke back on the file and directory settings.

for some odd reason, I was able to view graphs with the logging option on along with the more restrictive perms when running 8.0