Reinstalling Monitoring Components After an Upgrade

During an upgrade from MEP 6.x to MEP 7.0.0 or MEP 7.0.1, some monitoring components do not get updated because of an error in the fourth digit of the package version. This page provides a workaround for the issue.

The issue (known issue ES-77) is fixed in MEP 7.1.0 and later.
This issue can occur during manual upgrades or upgrades performed using the Installer. The affected components can include any or all of the following:
  • Elasticsearch
  • Fluentd
  • Grafana
  • Kibana
Follow these steps to identify, remove, and reinstall the packages that were not upgraded:
  1. After upgrading, use one of the following commands to check the package versions of the installed monitoring components:
    OS Command
    RHEL/CentOS yum list installed
    SUSE zypper packages --installed-only
    Ubuntu apt list --installed
  2. Identify the packages that were not upgraded. The following table shows the desired versions for each package for MEPs 7.0.0 and 7.0.1. For more version information, see Component Versions for Released MEPs.
    Package Desired Version
    MEP 7.0.0 MEP 7.0.1
    mapr-elasticsearch 6.8.8.0 6.8.8.0
    mapr-fluentd 1.10.3.0 1.10.3.0
    mapr-grafana 6.7.4.0 6.7.4.0
    mapr-kibana 6.8.8.0 6.8.8.0
  3. Before removing the packages that were not upgraded:
    1. Ensure that you have backed up any configuration files and indexes as described in Pre-Upgrade Steps for Monitoring. For Elasticsearch in particular, you must back up the default location for Elasticsearch index data unless you specified a non-default location using the -ESDB parameter with configure.sh during installation.
    2. Export or make backup copies of any custom dashboards you configured for Grafana or Kibana.
  4. Manually uninstall the packages that were not upgraded by using one of the following commands. For example, to uninstall the Elasticsearch package:
    • RHEL/CentOS:
      • yum remove mapr-elasticsearch
    • SUSE:
      • zypper remove mapr-elasticsearch
    • Ubuntu:
      • apt remove mapr-elasticsearch --purge
  5. Install the desired packages for MEP 7.0.0 or MEP 7.0.1 using one of the following methods: