[ixpmanager] Upgrade from 4x to 6x

[Kyle Spencer]

Barry,

We achieved this upgrade. Your resources were very helpful. Thank you!

We used Proxmox and LXC snapshots to save our progress each step of
the way. A few notes (paraphrasing from Simon Vass who did the work):

1) There were a couple cases where "php composer.phar update" needed
to be run before the "php composer.phar install" command would work
successfully.

2) The PHP PPA now pulls in 8.1 packages and the documentation/scripts
reference 8.0. We are now running on 8.1 and the documentation/scripts
might benefit from being updated to reflect this.

3) We got tripped up a bit by our custom skin but overcame this by
commenting out the relevant configuration line from the .env file.

Regards,
Kyle Spencer

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:09 PM Kyle Spencer <kyle at stormzero.com> wrote:
>
> Barry,
>
> Thanks for the detailed explanation. We'll give this a try and see
> what happens :)
>
> Regards,
> Kyle Spencer
>
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 8:01 PM Barry O'Donovan (INEX)
> <barry.odonovan at inex.ie> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Kyle Spencer via ixpmanager wrote on 21/01/2022 16:49:
> > > As the title says, we would like to upgrade from version 4x to 6x.
> >  >
> > > We're happy to start fresh and re-enter the data manually but we're
> > > keen to preserve the years of MRTG data we've accumulated.
> >
> > The MRTG file naming schema changed at some point so your best bet is to
> > upgrade rather than fresh install.
> >
> > See the video tutorials here:
> >
> > https://www.ixpmanager.org/support/tutorials
> >
> > and proceed as follows:
> >
> > 1. 'Legacy Upgrades (v4.9.3 to v5.7.0)' under Workshops
> >
> > 2. then upgrade v5.7 to v5.8 via:
> > https://docs.ixpmanager.org/install/upgrade-v5/
> >
> > 3. then the video tutorial '4. Upgrade from v5.8.0 to v6.0.0' under
> > Course #1 on the same page
> >
> > 4. and finally upgrade v6 to current via:
> > https://docs.ixpmanager.org/install/upgrading/
> >
> > You're quite far behind with v4.x so you'll need to invest some time
> > (and take backups!) but the process should be quicker than a fresh install.
> >
> >
> > NB: I would strongly recommend priming yourself before any of the above
> > by watching the general upgrading tutorial called 'Upgrading IXP Manager
> > (within the v5.x releases)' on the same video tutorials page.
> >
> >
> >   - Barry
> >
> > >
> > > We run a separate MRTG server (i.e. it's decoupled from IXP Manager).
> > > Would a fresh installation of the new version smoothly re-integrate
> > > with MRTG (e.g. by using the same internal references for each
> > > customer)?
> > >
> > > If not, how much of a nightmare would the upgrade process be?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Kyle Spencer
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Barry O'Donovan
> > INEX
> >
> > https://www.inex.ie/support/
> > +353 1 531 3339
> >
> >
>
>
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