Upgrading your Zabbix installation

You now probably want to know how to upgrade your installation and you probably think it is a painful process, but it isn't! Since version 2.2, upgrading Zabbix is so easy that we will cover the process in no more than a page!

Note

If you use binaries (you always should in production) then the first thing you need to do is make sure you have a backup in case things go wrong.

There are two ways of upgrading:

1. We can just update the patch version.
2. We can upgrade the major and or minor version in Zabbix.

If you only want to upgrade the minor version (for example, 2.4.0 to 2.4.1) then running an update of your package manager should do the trick, for example, yum update zabbix*. Don't forget to restart services once it's done.

If you want to upgrade Zabbix to a new <major> or <minor> version, for example, 2.2 to 2.4, the follow these steps:

1. Read the release notes just to be sure that noting special needs to be done.
2. Then stop the Zabbix services...