Running Nagios XI using Amazon AWS instances

[oteroj92]

Hello,

I recently finished my 60 day trial of Nagios XI that was offered through an Amazon AWS instance. I enjoyed monitoring my devices and decided to move forward in obtaining a full version of Nagios along with a more powerful instance that will support its requirements. For reliability I wanted to have a backup instance just in case amazon runs into problems and my primary instance goes offline along with Nagios.

My question is:
Will I need to purchase multiple licenses to have a primary and a backup instance? Or can I transfer data from one instance to another with Nagios?

The reason I asked was when I created my bigger instance, I received another 60 days of trial, which I did not want because my configured devices were no longer there as well.
Maybe I missed a step

Thanks!

[rkennedy]

Generally speaking we can help with technical issues here, but licensing / account related questions should go to our sales team. Can you reach out to [email protected] with your question?

[oteroj92]

whoops! ok done!

[dwhitfield]

It sounds like this issue has been resolved. Is it okay if we lock this thread? Thanks for choosing the Nagios forums!

[oteroj92]

I just got through talking to sales. They did answer my licensing question but another issue came up when talking with them. I still have my configured devices on my trial instance on Amazon AWS. Is there any way to transfer those configurations to another instance that is running nagios?

[dwhitfield]

Is there any way to transfer those configurations to another instance that is running nagios?

Indeed: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf

Let us know if you run into any issues.

[oteroj92]

Thanks!

Since I am restoring on a new system, how can I copy the tar.gz file that I just created from the old server, to the new server directory?

After that everything else seems pretty straight forward.

[dwhitfield]

Well, there are a number of ways to do this, but you could try scp -3 user@server1:/path/to/file user@server2:/path/to/file from your local machine. That assumes you have scp on the local box.

FTP/SFTP would be one of many other options.

[oteroj92]

hmmm I cant seem to get scp working. I get the error when I have "-3" on it.

I tried the FTP/SFTP method and it seemed to work until I was denied permission to place the file on the directory. By default the user that I use to sign in isnt the root user, When I connect to the server, in order to do admin actions I switch using the "su" command. I dont think I could do that with FTP/SFTP method so that must be why I cant get the file copied to the directory.


Any other ideas?

[dwhitfield]

What OS/version are you running on your desktop? I'm pretty sure SFTP is going to work for you. We just have to get you the right client.