zabbix-sender is not upgraded to latest version.

[Kihltech]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 4.10.12
• Ruby: 2.3.1.p112
• Distribution: Ubuntu 16.04.6
• Module version: 8.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

We are upgrading some clients' from zabbix 4 to zabbix 5 with this code:

class profile::zabbix_agent5 (
)
{
  class { 'zabbix::agent':
    zabbix_version       => '5.0',
    zabbix_package_state => 'latest',
    server => "$zabbixServerIps",
    serveractive => "$zabbixServerIps",
    listenip => "0.0.0.0",
    include_dir => "/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d",
    include_dir_purge => "false",
  }

  include zabbix::sender

}

What are you seeing

zabbix-agent is updated to the "latest" version as expected. zabbix-sender however, remains on 4.x.

What behaviour did you expect instead

zabbix-sender also upgraded to 5.x

Output log

Adding notice code to the agent.pp and sender.pp file in the module shows the current state:

Notice: /Stage[main]/Zabbix::Agent/Notify[Zabbix-agent debugging. ensure = latest]/message: current_value 'absent', should be 'Zabbix-agent debugging. ensure = latest' (noop)
Notice: /Stage[main]/Zabbix::Sender/Notify[Zabbix-sender debugging. ensure = present]/message: current_value 'absent', should be 'Zabbix-sender debugging. ensure = present' (noop)

I expect ensure = latest for zabbix::sender, since it should be inherited from the other zabbix packages, from what I understand of the code:

  # Installing the package
  package { 'zabbix-sender':
    ensure  => $zabbix_package_state,
    #ensure  => latest,
    require => Class['zabbix::repo'],
    tag     => 'zabbix',
  }

I have tested with a modified version of sender.pp with explicit ensure => latest, as you can see, and that makes it work as I expect:

Notice: /Stage[main]/Zabbix::Sender/Package[zabbix-sender]/ensure: current_value '1:4.2.8-1+bionic', should be '1:5.0.15-1+bionic' (noop)
Notice: Class[Zabbix::Sender]: Would have triggered 'refresh' from 1 event

Any additional information you'd like to impart

[root-expert]

As far as I see from the code you have to explicitly call zabbix::sender class with zabbix_package_state set. I don't think it's being inherited

The default value is set in the params.pp file which is by default present

[evgeni]

As far as I see from the code you have to explicitly call zabbix::sender class with zabbix_package_state set. I don't think it's being inherited

The default value is set in the params.pp file which is by default present

I read it the same way.

Given there has been no other movement on this issue for 2 years, I am going to close it now.