Nagios Support Forum

Hello everyone,

We have been running the 3.x install of Nagios for a while quite well and as expected. Our 3.5 install was installed via yum and I was looking to update to 4.x however I didn't see the 4 release in a yum repo on CentOS 6.5. Is there a repo to add or has 4 not been added into yum as of yet? Also, I'm wondering if there are any issues with upgrading a 3.5 release from yum to 4 via the source.

Thanks!

Nagios Core 4.0+ is not featured in the yum repo's, there are certain issues with core 4.0.2+ that were not present in 3.5.0 but such is life with new software releases. You can track all changes via our tracker site, and the change log:

http://www.nagios.org/

tracker.nagios.org/

As for installing over the yum version, I would suggest instead to copy your /etc/nagios ? configs to a temporary location, and fully removing the yum version. Then install from source and copy your configs back to /usr/local/nagios/etc/ (default directory) and alter the nagios.cfg and possibly commands.cfg to work with the new install. Otherwise, there should not be many if any major changes that need to happen. Oh and don't forget if you have any custom plugins or scripts that are used in commands to copy those prior to reinstall as well.