In order to manually upgrade the Pulseway agent to the latest version, the old version need to be removed first:

rpm -e pcmonitor or dpkg --remove pcmonitor

 

Check if pcmonitord process is still running:

ps auxw | grep pcmonitord

 

Kill the process if it is still running:

killall pcmonitord

 

Install the new version:

rpm -Uhv pulseway_xXX.rpm

or

dpkg -i pulseway_xXX.deb

 

Start the pulseway service:

/etc/init.d/pulseway start

Does removing the old version also remove the config file?

@collector, it doesnt remove the config.xml file but it does break something...

[root@COOPER ~]# cd /etc/pcmonitor/
[root@COOPER pcmonitor]# ls
config.xml
[root@COOPER pcmonitor]# /etc/init.d/pcmonitor restart
/etc/pcmonitor/config.xml not found. exit

Stopping pcmonitor daemon:                                 [  OK  ]
/etc/pcmonitor/config.xml not found. exit

Starting pcmonitor daemon:                                 [  OK  ]
[root@COOPER pcmonitor]#

Any ideas guys ? As you can see config.xml does exist !

Hi,

 

@Craigusus: What distro? stop/start sequence works? Just wander if is something related to restart only.

 

Mark

Hi Mark,

Thanks for the reply. It looks as if when doing the 'update' it changes the properties of the config.xml.

I just ran:

chmod 777 /etc/pcmonitor/config.xml

And it all now works fine !

Although did just notice it duplicated my server on my dashboard/app. One server was offline and the other online. Have removed the offline one now.

On a CentOS 6.5 x64 box.

Hope this helps.

Craig

Also just ran on 2 other CentOS 6.4 boxes.

The error '/etc/pcmonitor/config.xml not found. exit' is a false positive. As the pcmonitord runs OK but shows that error before I run the chmod command.

Must be an issue with permisions.

I've installed an vanilla CentOS 6.4 in vm, install pcmonitor and started with no issues.

 

Regards,

Mark

There is an simple test -x command in the startscript, therefore you need an chmod 744 on config.xml.

"confix.xml" permision is 744 (part of install script) unless is manually changed.