RHEL Nagios XI upgrade from 5.5.11 to 5.7.2

[pcappell]

Hello,

Quick question regarding updating of Nagios XI on RHEL. We are currently running on 5.5.11 and would like to upgrade to the latest version, 5.7.2.

Has anyone reported any issues with jumping that large of an amount of revisions, or the opposite, has anyone had success jumping that large of an amount of revisions.

Best,
Paul

[benjaminsmith]

Hi Paul,

As a matter of best practice, it's always a good idea to deploy a test server for major or minor upgrades before making any changes to your production server. Your Nagios XI license allows for 3 activations, production, test and backup.

We've made substantial backend changes in 5.7, I would recommend going to 5.6.14 first and then upgrade to 5.7.x when ready.

Also, make sure you have recent backups and enough disk space. If you're using a VM take a snapshot. Also, a good idea to check your database logs for any errors. If you'd like I could review your system profile for proceeding.

To send us your system profile.
Login to the Nagios XI GUI using a web browser.
Click the "Admin" > "System Profile" Menu
Click the "Download Profile" button
Save the profile.zip file and share in a private message or upload it to the post/ticket, and then reply to this post to bring it up in the queue.

Since you haven't upgraded for a while, I would recommend using the manual upgrade method.

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cd /tmp
rm -rf nagiosxi xi*.tar.gz
wget http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/xi-latest.tar.gz
tar xzf xi-latest.tar.gz
cd nagiosxi
./upgrade

[pcappell]

Benjamin,

Apologies for taking so long to respond to you.

I have tested this method and it failed for me.
After doing a little research, due to our servers being the offline variety, we have to use a different method.

Unfortunately, the tarball method (https://repo.nagios.com/?repo=offline) appears to stop at version 5.5.11. Are there tarballs for 5.6.14 and 5.7.3 located elsewhere?

Best,
Paul

[benjaminsmith]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for bringing that to our attention. I believe there is an error on his page and we are looking into it right now. I will update you once I have more information.

Regards,
Benjamin

[benjaminsmith]

Hi,

Update. We did get this page corrected now, you'll find all the versions on the following page:

https://repo.nagios.com/?repo=offline

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Benjamin

[pcappell]

Benjamin,

That did it! Thanks so much for checking into that.

Best,
Paul

[scottwilkerson]

Benjamin,

That did it! Thanks so much for checking into that.

Best,
Paul

Great!

Closing case