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Upgrade from Centreon 19.10

This chapter describes how to upgrade your Centreon platform from version 19.10 to version 20.04.

Perform a backup

Be sure that you have fully backed up your environment for the following servers:

  • Central server
  • Database server

Upgrade the Centreon Central server

Update the Centreon repository

Run the following commands:

yum install -y http://yum.centreon.com/standard/20.04/el7/stable/noarch/RPMS/centreon-release-20.04-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm

Upgrade the Centreon solution

Centreon 20.04 uses MariaDB 10.3.

This upgrade process will only upgrade Centreon components first.

MariaDB will be upgraded afterwards.

Clean yum cache:

yum clean all --enablerepo=*

Then upgrade all the components with the following command:

yum update centreon\*

Accept new GPG keys from the repositories as needed.

Additional actions

Configure Apache API access

If you had a custom apache configuration, upgrade process through RPM did not update it.

If you use https, you can follow this procedure

You'll then need to add API access section to your configuration file: /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/conf.d/10-centreon.conf

Only lines with "+" symbol must be taken into account.

+Alias /centreon/api /usr/share/centreon
Alias /centreon /usr/share/centreon/www/

+<LocationMatch ^/centreon/(?!api/latest/|api/beta/|api/v[0-9]+/|api/v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/)(.*\.php(/.*)?)$>
+  ProxyPassMatch fcgi://127.0.0.1:9042/usr/share/centreon/www/$1
+</LocationMatch>

+<LocationMatch ^/centreon/api/(latest/|beta/|v[0-9]+/|v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+/)(.*)$>
+  ProxyPassMatch fcgi://127.0.0.1:9042/usr/share/centreon/api/index.php/$1
+</LocationMatch>

ProxyTimeout 300

<Directory "/usr/share/centreon/www">
    DirectoryIndex index.php
    Options Indexes
    AllowOverride all
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Require all granted
    <IfModule mod_php5.c>
        php_admin_value engine Off
    </IfModule>

+    RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+    RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
+    ErrorDocument 404 /centreon/index.html

    AddType text/plain hbs
</Directory>

+<Directory "/usr/share/centreon/api">
+    Options Indexes
+    AllowOverride all
+    Order allow,deny
+    Allow from all
+    Require all granted
+    <IfModule mod_php5.c>
+        php_admin_value engine Off
+    </IfModule>
+
+    AddType text/plain hbs
+</Directory>

RedirectMatch ^/$ /centreon

Then, restart apache service :

systemctl restart httpd24-httpd

Finalizing the upgrade

Before starting the web upgrade process, reload the Apache server with the following command:

systemctl reload httpd24-httpd

Then log on to the Centreon web interface to continue the upgrade process:

Click on Next:

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Click on Next:

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The release notes describe the main changes. Click on Next:

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This process performs the various upgrades. Click on Next:

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Your Centreon server is now up to date. Click on Finish to access the login page:

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If the Centreon BAM module is installed, refer to the upgrade procedure.

Post-upgrade actions

Upgrade extensions

From Administration > Extensions > Manager, upgrade all extensions, starting with the following:

  • License Manager,
  • Plugin Packs Manager,
  • Auto Discovery.

Then you can upgrade all other commercial extensions.

Start the tasks manager

Centreon 20.04 has changed his tasks manager from Centcore to Gorgone.

To act this change, run the following commands:

systemctl stop centcore
systemctl enable gorgoned
systemctl start gorgoned

Engine statistics that have been collected by Centcore will know be collected by Gorgone.

Change the rights on the statistics RRD files by running the following command:

chown -R centreon-gorgone /var/lib/centreon/nagios-perf/*

Restart monitoring processes

Centreon Broker component has changed its configuration file format.

It now uses JSON instead of XML.

To make sure Broker and Engine's Broker module are using new configuration files, follow this steps:

  1. Deploy Central's configuration from the Centreon web UI by following this procedure,

  2. Restart both Broker and Engine on the Central server by running this command:

    systemctl restart cbd centengine

Upgrade MariaDB server

The MariaDB components can now be upgraded.

Be aware that MariaDB strongly recommends to upgrade the server through each major release. Please refer to the official MariaDB documentation for further information.

You then need to upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2 and from 10.2 to 10.3.

That is why Centreon provides both 10.2 and 10.3 versions on its stable repositories.

Refer to the official MariaDB documentation to know more about this process:

Configuration

innodb_additional_mem_pool_size parameter has been removed since MariaDB 10.2, so you should remove it from file /etc/my.cnf.d/centreon.cnf

#
# Custom MySQL/MariaDB server configuration for Centreon
#
[server]
innodb_file_per_table=1

open_files_limit = 32000

key_buffer_size = 256M
sort_buffer_size = 32M
join_buffer_size = 4M
thread_cache_size = 64
read_buffer_size = 512K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K
max_allowed_packet = 8M

# For 4 Go Ram
-#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=512M
#innodb_buffer_pool_size=512M

# For 8 Go Ram
-#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=1G
#innodb_buffer_pool_size=1G

Upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2

Follow those summarized steps to perform the upgrade in the way recommended by MariaDB:

  1. Stop the mariadb service:

    systemctl stop mariadb

  2. Uninstall current 10.1 version:

    rpm --erase --nodeps --verbose MariaDB-server MariaDB-client MariaDB-shared MariaDB-compat MariaDB-common

  3. Install 10.2 version:

    yum install MariaDB-server-10.2\* MariaDB-client-10.2\* MariaDB-shared-10.2\* MariaDB-compat-10.2\* MariaDB-common-10.2\*

  4. Start the mariadb service:

    systemctl start mariadb

  5. Launch the MariaDB upgrade process:

    mysql_upgrade

Refer to the official documentation if errors occur during this last step.

Upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3

Follow those summarized steps to perform the upgrade in the way recommended by MariaDB:

  1. Stop the mariadb service:

    systemctl stop mariadb

  2. Uninstall current 10.2 version:

    rpm --erase --nodeps --verbose MariaDB-server MariaDB-client MariaDB-shared MariaDB-compat MariaDB-common

  3. Install 10.3 version:

    yum install MariaDB-server-10.3\* MariaDB-client-10.3\* MariaDB-shared-10.3\* MariaDB-compat-10.3\* MariaDB-common-10.3\*

  4. Start the mariadb service:

    systemctl start mariadb

  5. Launch the MariaDB upgrade process:

    mysql_upgrade

Refer to the official documentation if errors occur during this last step.

Enable MariaDB on startup

Execute the following command:

systemctl enable mariadb

Upgrade the Remote Servers

This procedure is the same than to upgrade a Centreon Central server.

Upgrade the Pollers

Update the Centreon repository

Run the following command:

yum install -y http://yum.centreon.com/standard/20.04/el7/stable/noarch/RPMS/centreon-release-20.04-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm

Upgrade the Centreon solution

Clean yum cache:

yum clean all --enablerepo=*

Upgrade all the components with the following command:

yum update centreon\*

Accept new GPG keys from the repositories as needed.

Post-upgrade actions

Due to new configuration file format for Engine's Broker module, the configuration needs to be re-deployed.

Deploy Poller's configuration from the Centreon web UI by following this procedure, and choose Restart method for Engine process.

Communications

By default, the communication between Central and Pollers or Remote Servers will still be using SSH protocol.

Consider changing the communication protocol by following the Change communication from SSH to ZMQ procedure.

Secure your platform

Don't forget to secure your Centreon platform following our recommendations

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