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Title
Is my Syslog-ng Store Box upgradable to version 6? -
Description
This knowledge base article contains a script that can be run to check if Syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) is upgradable to version 6.
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Cause
Older versions of SSB contains deprecated components.
The checking of these components are done only before upgrading to SSB 6 from SSB 5.
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Resolution
Solution
- Upload the attached script to the boot firmware of the SSB.
- Log in to the boot shell
- Execute the script
./ssb6_upgrade_precheck.sh
- Check the result. See examples below.
Examples
Upgradable SSB
(boot/master/ssb5fx)root@ssb1:~# ./ssb6_upgrade_precheck.sh
- SSB version: 5.3.0
- Upgrades:Thu Feb 28 10:42:50 CET 2019: Upgrade is allowed; old='5.2', new='5.3'
- Checking prerequisites of upgrading to SSB 6.
--- Checking Grub 2 partition ... found: okPartiton table of /dev/sda:Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi)Disk /dev/sda: 17.2GBSector size (logical/physical): 512B/512BPartition Table: gptDisk Flags:Number Start End Size File system Name Flags1 1049kB 3146kB 2097kB bios_grub bios_grub2 3146kB 2149MB 2145MB ext4 boot3 2149MB 4296MB 2147MB swap4 4296MB 17.2GB 12.9GB ext4 core
--- Checking core firmware file system ... ext4: ok
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 ext4 12253300 6496868 5740048 54% /mnt/drbd--- Checking unsupported sources and destinations drivers ... ok--- ResultUpgrade is allowed.
Unsupported drivers in use
--- ResultUpgrade is not possible because of unsupported source and/or destinations drivers are in use.Stay on SSB 5 LTS until those drivers are implemented orinstall a syslog-ng PE 6 relay machine to process the logs of the unsupported drivers.
Migration needed
--- ResultUpgrade is NOT allowed.The appliance must be migrated to a new one.Check knowledge base article 'Migration of Syslog-ng Store Box to a new appliance (261433)'https://support.oneidentity.com/syslog-ng-store-box/kb/261433 -
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