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General update of openITCOCKPIT¶

Updates of openITCOCKPIT are done via the package manager of the used linux distribution.

Backup

Before you start, make sure you have a working backup of your system!

E-Mail Configuration

If you made changes in e-mail configuration make sure to backup /opt/openitc/frontend/config/email.php before you update and restore it afterwards.

Please make sure to run all commands as root user.

Ubuntu / Debian¶

Update package sources

apt-get update

Update

apt-get dist-upgrade

Red Hat Enterprise Linux¶

Danger

openITCOCKPIT expecteds the Linux default umask to be set to 022 (default for most Linux distributions). If you are unsure change the umask to 022 before you continue with the update.

umask 0022

Update package sources

dnf --refresh check-update

Update

dnf update