Upgrade NagiosXI in a test environment

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scobos
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Upgrade NagiosXI in a test environment

Post by scobos »

Hi,

We need to upgrade a NagiosXI Licensed environment from 5.4.12 to the latest version (We want to use Azure Cloud Wizard).

We try this operation some months ago, but it was fail and we had to recover it from backup.

Now, We want to repeat it but in a non-production environment. We plan to make a clon of our production environment and disable all active checks and then try to upgrade. If it fail again, we could open a new post here or contact with support without a critical environment stopped.

Can We proceed like this?
Is there any problem with make a clon with a licensed environment and test a upgrade?
If this is not correct, How must we proceed?
Can we install the Azure Wizard without upgrade whole NagiosXI?
dchurch
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Re: Upgrade NagiosXI in a test environment

Post by dchurch »

With every purchase we offer 3 separate activation of XI licenses. One for production, one for testing, and one for high availability. We always recommend upgrading on a test server first before making changes to the production server.

As far as just updating the Azure wizard component, it's probably in your best interest to do a full upgrade of Nagios XI. We're constantly making fixes and performance improvements to Nagios XI.

As far as migrating goes, the simplest solution is probably to deploy the appropriate OVA file from our VMWare image download page. If you already have your own server, it's simplest to just install using our package repository. Then export the configuration from the old machine, and import them into the new one following these steps:
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