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I have Nagios XI Version : 2012R2. and I want to upgrade to
***BETA***
2014R1.0RC3
Apr 29, 2014

so I want to make sure if this new version stable. and what about 2014 license since I have new license for nagios XI 2012R2, so is this new version need me buy new license
and is it possible to check the new version for a period of time before activate the licence

hanya.radwan wrote:I have Nagios XI Version : 2012R2. and I want to upgrade to
***BETA***
2014R1.0RC3
Apr 29, 2014

so I want to make sure if this new version stable. and what about 2014 license since I have new license for nagios XI 2012R2, so is this new version need me buy new license
and is it possible to check the new version for a period of time before activate the licence

Since this is a *BETA* release it is considered "almost stable" but it is not the final version of the product. Your license includes the ability to upgrade to the current version of Nagios XI as long as your license is valid. If your license runs out, the 60-day trial is available to everyone.

i upgraded my current nagios to 2014R1, but gives me the following error during the upgrade and not continue upgrading process:
*** Main program, CGIs and HTML files installed ***

You can continue with installing Nagios as follows (type 'make'
without any arguments for a list of all possible options):

make install-init
- This installs the init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d

make install-commandmode
- This installs and configures permissions on the
directory for holding the external command file

make install-config
- This installs sample config files in /usr/local/nagios/etc

make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/nagiosxi/subcomponents/nagioscore/nagios-4.0.5'
Running configuration check... CONFIG ERROR! Restart aborted. Check your Nagios configuration.

Running configuration check... CONFIG ERROR! Restart aborted. Check your Nagios configuration.

This tells you exactly what is wrong..... you need to fix your configurations before you can re-compile, or restart nagios.

Where can configuration files? Is it nagios.cfg

Check them the same way you have been when setting up hosts and services... CCM > Tools > Write Config Tool > Verify. This will show you where the errors lay. Then when you fix them you can apply configuration to fully implement the changes.

I did that, and fixed some error, but instead some services I deleted them from services but still give me error about as the following, so how can change on configuration files to fix this problem, this service "_multiple_hosts.cfg" I delete from services:
Error: Service has no hosts and/or service_description (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/services/_multiple_hosts.cfg', starting on line 32)

Nagios Core 4.0.5
Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Last Modified: 04-11-2014
License: GPL

Website: http://www.nagios.org
Reading configuration data...
Warning: use_embedded_perl_implicitly is deprecated and will be removed.
Warning: sleep_time is deprecated and will be removed.
Warning: p1_file is deprecated and will be removed.
Warning: external_command_buffer_slots is deprecated and will be removed. All commands are always processed upon arrival
Warning: enable_embedded_perl is deprecated and will be removed.
Warning: command_check_interval is deprecated and will be removed. Commands are always handled on arrival
Read main config file okay...
Warning: failure_prediction_enabled is obsoleted and no longer has any effect in host type objects (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosttemplates.cfg', starting at line 36)
Warning: failure_prediction_enabled is obsoleted and no longer has any effect in host type objects (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosttemplates.cfg', starting at line 132)
Warning: failure_prediction_enabled is obsoleted and no longer has any effect in service type objects (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/servicetemplates.cfg', starting at line 155)
Warning: failure_prediction_enabled is obsoleted and no longer has any effect in service type objects (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/servicetemplates.cfg', starting at line 181)
Error: Service has no hosts and/or service_description (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/services/_multiple_hosts.cfg', starting on line 32)
Error processing object config files!


***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files...

Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous
version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.

Looks like you either did not delete it because of the failed apply configuration, in which case you need to either add a service description, or assign it to hosts to make it valid.

Or, if you did remove it from the CCM, and you cannot see it there anymore, you will need to manually remove that configuration file from your SSH session. It may be that it is a ghost service. If you do delete it manually, and apply configuration, and it re-appears then it is likely sill in the mysql DB, and likely still in the CCM.

ok, the upgrade succeed. I installed nagios 2014 on other server for testing, so I want to ask about the following points:

does nagios 2014 become stable?
do the agents on host will be changed or they will the same?
i have 176 host, so I plan to open connection between new nagios server and these servers, so does the installed agent(as nrpe,snmp,..) affect? and does old nagios affect also?

Well it is currently in beta, it will eventually have an official release, so I'd say that release will be more stable for production environments.

The beta you are talking about here is for Nagios XI, not any of the agents you'd use with it. There will likely be no changes to the agents because of 2014.

so does the installed agent(as nrpe,snmp,..) affect? and does old nagios affect also?

This is a bit vague, what do you mean "how does the installed agent affect?" Are you asking about performance? It will depend on how strong your hosts are hardware wise, but the agents themselves have really no effect on load when running their daemons. Checks, on the other hand, are what take more resources, depending on what type of checks, and how many you are running on the remote servers, you may or may not see a load difference.