DX Unified Infrastructure Management

Hello,

I recieved a question from our Unix sys-admins, regarding the last RHEL robot-rpm version used, namely 7.80.

We are currently using Red Hat Satellite to provision and patch.

Recently a custom tooling repo has been added, containing amongst others, the nimsoft 7.80 robot rpm.

We would like to upgrade agent using rpm
Target version is nimsoft-robot-7.80-1.x86_64
Source is nimsoft-robot-5.52-1.x86_64

Upgrade using rpm –Uvh breaks the previous installation.
File /opt/nimsoft/robot/robot.cfg gets overwritten by new version hence all config is lost and robot does not start.
To fix robot, we must
-    Stop controller
-    copy /opt/nimsoft/robot/robot.cfg.rpmsave from the previous version to /opt/nimsoft/robot/robot.cfg
-    run /opt/nimsoft/install/RobotConfigurer.sh
-    start agent

However, all probes configuration are lost.

Does anybody have an idea how to resolve this issue ?

Kind Regards,

Laurens

Hi there is an idea for this currently. But currently the rpm packages can not do this.

They would have to be changed by the dev team through an enhancement process.

you can up vote it here:

Allow Robot RPM to Be Used for Upgrades 

Thank you, Gene, had this question in my backlog, didn't think of checking whether in the meantime somebody had the same issue.

Kind Regards,

Laurens

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