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Hi, I just tried to perform an Upgrade of NagiosXi from 5.6.12 to current and discovered the CentOS 6 is no longer supported as is end of life. I'll need to transition to CentOS 7 or 8, I was thinking of 8 because it's newer, would anyone recommend against this? My main question is, is there any doc...

Hi,

Yes please mark it as resolved, I was trying to find a way of doing that myself but couldn't find the option.

Many Thanks,

Ben

No worries, after hours on this I find the issue... really simple one too.

Just didn't have the Server authentication set to allow SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode so it was only allowing connections through Windows Authentication!

Hi, I've been running an old monitoring db that stores certain results from some check done with powershell on an old server 2003 and old SQL Express and decided it was way over due an update so I have a new Server 2019 with SQL 2019 Express but I'm having issues connecting to the new DB through Nag...

Thanks for your help, this can now be closed.

Kind Regards,

Ben

We are currently running 5.6.0 with plans to update in a few weeks so maybe the fail safes were added after this version?

Perfect, that did it, Notifications are now flooding through..

Is there a way of monitoring this kind of issue in Nagios?

ll /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/event* returns: -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios users 0 Jul 26 12:41 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/event_handler.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 2633748 Sep 3 14:29 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/event_handler.log -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 6058992 Sep 17 2017 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/event_handler...

Hi, We have today noticed that we have suddenly stopped receiving notifications. For years we have not had any issues but suddenly we are and I can't work out why? Our setup is to send email notifications to our exchange server. This has always worked, but we've noticed that we haven't been receivin...