Upgrading from a major revision of XI

[disrael]

Nagios Team,

We are in the process of future planning for Nagios upgrades. In case there is a a major revision of Nagios XI, would it require to be installed on a new system or can we upgrade an existing system?

Kind Regards,

Doron

[abrist]

In place upgrades have always been supported in the past, and will continue to be supported in future version. This does not mitigate the importance of doing a full xi backup before upgrading to new major releases.

[sreinhardt]

If you presently have nagios installed on a system, in place upgrades are handled via a script included with the tarball. All previous packages and dependencies should already be met unless something like gcc has been removed. The only other case would be if we updated another third party component that had other dependency needs, and we can remedy that issue very quickly via the ticketing system. Overall there should be very very little if any need for additional files outside of the nagios tarball its self.