Upgrade to Nagios 2014

[MSPk]

Hi Team,

We are planning to upgrade one of our clients Monitoring platform to Nagios XI 2014R1.0 from Nagios XI 2012R2.8c. we have developed some custome scripts to monitor some parameters on our environement and we are running them on the remote servers via NRPE, I understand Nagios 2014 uses Nagios core 4.0 in 2014 version and a new version of plugins - please suggest if we need to takecare of anything before we proceed with this upgrade.

[slansing]

I'd recommend backing everything up / snapshotting the VM if you are using a VM just in case. On the note of custom scripts, are they replacing anything in the plugins directory that would use the same name as a standard Nagios plugin? If not I don't think anything out of the ordinary would happen to them.

[MSPk]

On the note of custom scripts, are they replacing anything in the plugins directory that would use the same name as a standard Nagios plugin?

No, we haven't used the name of any standard plugin for any of the scripts we have created.

Also, Is there is a way to revert back to the previous version if we wish to?

[slansing]

That is where the snapshot/backup comes in, if you run a full backup you will be able to use that to re-install or replace files, and if you snapshot the VM it's virtually a one click revert.
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios-XI.pdf