Upgrade to 6.0.2

[bsarandan]

10x, I will try it on vmware first and only after that on the production server but I will let u know if it worked or not.

10x again for the all the answers

[bubarooni]

I'm wanting to upgrade a 5.0.5 NE on RHEL 5 to 6.0.2, mainly to get my boss to quit complaining about his Outlook. I look forward to hearing your experience in the upgrade process bsarandan.

please take notes and share!

[sergiumartin]

After the upgrade if we run zmcontrol -v , we still get
"
Release 6.0.2_GA_1912.RHEL5_20091020185714 CentOS5 NETWORK edition.
"
The installer file was exactly the one Phoenix mentioned above. this is really weird. we just hope this won't cause any problems in the future.
I can also confirm that this for sure it is NOT the Network Edition as no license file is present on this server and also features like live backups are not available on this server..

[brian]

sergiumartin, zmcontrol -v outputs the NETWORK identifier if /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackupquery exists. This should only exist in the NE edition.

[sergiumartin]

Originally Posted by brian

sergiumartin, zmcontrol -v outputs the NETWORK identifier if /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackupquery exists. This should only exist in the NE edition.

Brian, if this is not something new..i really doubt it.. i am using the same command for more than an year now, and it worked fine on both NE edition and OS edition.. We have one NE and two OS editions..on the OS edition that is not upgraded to the latest version yet,if i write zmcontrol -v as zimbra user here is my output :" zmcontrol -v

Release 5.0.18_GA_3011.openSUSE_10.2_20090709094925 openSUSEUNKNOWN FOSS edition
"
Also, on this link Zimbra CLI Commands you can see that this coommand is available for the open source version as well, this site being the "ZCS Administrator's Guide Open Source Edition 6.0, Rev 1".

[ArcaneMagus]

sergiumartin he was talking about /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackupquery not zmcontrol...

Does the file listed above exist on this server?

[bsarandan]

Yes, the file exists on both servers, on zcs 6.0.2 open source and on 4.5.10 Network Edition, but I can confirm that the administration console differs from one another, on the Netwok Edition Administration Console we can actually see the backup option, but on the one from the 6.0.2 Open Source we cannot see it.

[tgx]

Originally Posted by bsarandan

I have another question and i don't know if that has been asked or not.

We have openSUSE 10.2 and zimbra network edition 4.5.10 and it`s clearly time to upgrade to a new version. I can go with the updates to 5.0.18 after that openSUSE it's not supported anymore.

Would it work if I install a version of zimbra for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10/11 on openSUSE 10.2 ? to actually do the upgrade from 5.0.18 to 6.0.2 ?

thanks again

FWIW I have done this on a test server successfully, but have not tried it in a production scenario. My guess is the SLES packages will work up until there is some significant change that makes it all go off the rails. The problem is you never know when that day will come. As OpenSuSE is usually ahead of the SLE version game I think as long as you aren't running on the ragged edge with OpenSuSE that the SLE packages should work. OpenSuSE is in a similar position as CentOS in the unsupported category.

[bsarandan]

Yes, right now I finished the test in a VMWare box and everything was ok. I installed zimbra 5.0.2 for openSUSE 10.2 on a openSUSE 10.2 and after that I`ve upgrade it to 6.0.1 for SLES10 and it worked ok. After that I`ve upgraded 6.0.1 open source to 6.0.2 network edition for SLES10 too and worked ok again.

We'll going to try this on our production server which is an openSUSE 10.2, in a week or two, to upgrade zcs 4.5.10 network edition to the latest version of it and we will do that with the SLES10 version of zcs network edition.

We have 2 open source edition as well, one is on CentOS 5.2 with zcs 6.0.2 for RHEL5, and the other one is openSUSE 10.3 with zcs 5.0.18 but this one will be migrated to a new server with CentOS and will be upgraded to zcs 6.0.2 after the migration is successful.

[brian]

You should plan a migration to an appropriately supported distribution. Running SLES builds on openSUSE is not really something you want to be doing if/when it breaks and you need help.

Regarding the NETWORK identifier on FOSS builds, are you copying files between releases while testing a migration plan? zmbackupquery definately does not exist on fresh FOSS installs.