CentOS Update in NagiosXI Update?

[gomatze]

I have Upgraded Nagiosxi to Version 5.4.11 and was thinking about updating the CentOS Server as well...
But: do i have to do this or is the Server Update integrated in thge Nagiosxi Update?
And if i update CentOS do i have to expect Problems with NagiosXI afterwards?

[kyang]

Which CentOS version do you have now, and which CentOS version are you updating to?

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cat /etc/centos-release

Nagios XI does not do the OS update for you.

In general, let's say you have CentOS 5 and want to use CentOS 7. I would make a back up of your XI server by following --> https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Then I would build a clean VM with CentOS 7 --> then install XI 5.4.11 --> then restore the backup you saved from the older server following the link I gave you again.

Does this help?

[gomatze]

Hello, i am running CentOS release 6.8 (Final).

What i meant where the Updates in security and all the stuff like that just like the Windows always does when you Need it to start up fast .

[kyang]

Thanks for the clarification and sorry for the misunderstanding!

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yum update

It should work just fine, but in case you wanted to be sure. Since you have a Nagios XI License, you could try this on a testing server if you wanted to.

Let us know how it goes!

[gomatze]

I did the

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yum update

and it gave me no headaches.
CentOs took about 150 Updates und 2 new installs. Worked fine.

I took a snapshot first though...

[kyang]

Sounds good! Looks like everything went fine.

Did you have any more questions or are we okay to close this thread?

[gomatze]

Seems I'm fine for now. Thank you. The Threat can be closed