upgrading to 5.8 on centos6 to migrate to centos7

[rzietlow]

Hello support,

we're currently on nagiosxi 5.7.5 and in the process of migrating off of centos 6. While reading through the instructions last week one of them was to ensure the backup from our system to the new OVA system is the same nagios version. We deployed the 5.8 OVA and waited until today to do the upgrade.

I attempted to bring our version up to date to migrate off and it will not let me install nagios 5.8 due to being on centos6. Is there a way to safely upgrade to 5.8 on centos6 so we can then immediately backup and import into the 5.8 OVA? do we need the 5.7.5 OVA and then upgrade to 5.8?

how would be the best way to proceed with this upgrade?

Thanks

[cdienger]

The best way would be to do a manual install of XI 5.7.5 on a cent 7 machine, migrate the configuration from the old machine, and then perform the upgrade to 5.8.1.

You'll find manual install steps at https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... -Linux.pdf and a copy of the 5.7.5 installer at https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... 7.5.tar.gz.

The upgrade to 5.8.1 can be done with:

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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

[rzietlow]

Thanks, it shouldn't also be an issue to install 5.7.5 on ubuntu and then upgrade to 5.8?

[scottwilkerson]

Thanks, it shouldn't also be an issue to install 5.7.5 on ubuntu and then upgrade to 5.8?

This should work fine

You can find previous version here
https://www.nagios.com/downloads/nagios ... -releases/

[rzietlow]

Where can I get our license key, or is that part of the backup?

I emailed sales@ on Tuesday and haven't heard back yet.

[scottwilkerson]

Where can I get our license key, or is that part of the backup?

I emailed sales@ on Tuesday and haven't heard back yet.

I'll make sure someone reaches out today from sales