CentOS Version 8 on the OVA

[bostidr]

We need to upgrade our CentOS version 6 that hosts Nagios XI. If the ova will be upgraded to version 8 soon, I would rather wait and just skip over 7. Does anyone know if / when that is planned for release?

[mrmit]

We were told by support that RHEL8 support was in 5.7 which was due out in the next few months (set for Q2 2020 in the Nagios XI roadmap). I would that means that Centos 8 versions of the OVA would be out around same time.

[scottwilkerson]

CentOS 8 should be supported on Nagios XI 5.7.0 when it is released, not exact date is available at this time.

[bostidr]

Has anyone heard any new information about this. Last I checked about a week ago, this was still CentOS 7.

Specifically on the OVA, I am lazy!

[scottwilkerson]

5.7.x is released and will install on a clean minimal install of CentOS 8, but there is no date planned to switch our pre-created ova to CentOS 8.

In the past, we have waited until new major OS releases have had several minor releases before considering switching the pre-built OVA's to them.

I would suspect it would be at least 6 months before we would change to build the OVA on CentOS 8