Minor Updates

Minor upgrades within a major version are done via yum.

Yum update

To upgrade OP5 Monitor via yum log in to the console or via SSH. If you are logging in remotely via SSH it is recommended to perform your update in a tmux or screen session so that the process is not interrupted if there is a network problem.

To begin upgrading type:

yum clean all && yum update

If there are any updates it will be shown what is going to up updated and you get a question if you want to continue or not.

Major Updates

Monitor 7 to Monitor 8

To update to OP5 Monitor 8 from any previous version of OP5 Monitor 7 follow these instructions: 

yum clean all
yum update
yum install op5-release-up-7-to-8
yum --enablerepo='*7-to-8*' update

On EL7 make sure to run

systemctl enable op5-monitor