Upgrade

[mmestnik]

I'm also going to recompile/install the subcomponents.

You should logout and then back in as nagiosadmin to complete the upgrade.

[micatwix]

One more issue after an upgrade.

We now get email alerts instead of SMS alerts.

[micatwix]

Your responses take too long.
We cannot afford this downtime for business critical server, so we have reverted it again ...
Can you please update us when are you online to assist us with an upgrade ?
We have a number of issues you can see above.

[micatwix]

I did logout and login to complete the upgrade.
The symptoms described here were noticed after above is done.
Please advise.

[mmestnik]

Part of the problem here is that pkgs from Chris Lea's yum repository conflict with packages from other repositories. In order to use this repo you may need to replace any pkgs from other reps, like I did for SQlite. It would be far better to avoid this repository.

The problems you face are mainly with administration and specifically with installing and configuring CentOS. Now it's hard to say that that is the cause for everything, but consider the testing we have done on CentOS and RedHat installs. One approach is for you to try and duplicate our test environment, then you can work from there applying your custom modifications one by one to measure and document the effects.

I've created an unofficial kickstart(centos-livecd-minimal.nagiosxi.ks.bz2) file and a CentOS Live CD.
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/beta/

I have not used the kickstart file other then to spin the Live CD, but you may find it useful for your own testing. The file should be uncompressed before use.

[micatwix]

Question:
I understand that in-place upgrade is not possible now.
I woud like to install the base official latest CentOS on the new server.
Install the latest NagiosXI and port DB, config files, (something else?) from our server in order to migrate the current installation.
Is that possible ?
If yes, please give us instructions on how to do that.

thanks.

[mmestnik]

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Do ... XI/details OR http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Tu ... re/details

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Do ... XI/details

[micatwix]

Before I will dig into it:
Does the documentation deal with the version differences ?
Is the new version of Nagios and NagiosXI backward compatible in terms of DB and configuration files ?

thanks.

[mmestnik]

I'll ask. I would hope that the data would be forward-ported on import, but this depends on how well thought-out the backup format is. My suspicion is that at this time the product hasn't evolved enough for you to encounter any issues.

You can get downloads of every version back to the vary first release, let me know what version(s) and type your interested in and I can dig up URLs for you.