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Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:05 am
by atlantic
Good morning,
We are in the process of planning to upgrade from Nagios XI R1.1 to the latest available version, Nagios XI R1.6.
What do you consider to be the biggest benefits in making this upgrade?
My management team is interested in improved/enhanced reporting. Also, will there be a way to poll network devices such as UPS devices to battery life and load capacity.
If there is existing documentation that I should be reviewing, please point me in the right direction.
Regards & thank you,
Mark Frew
Atlantic Broadband
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:22 am
by htel
All of the changes to XI since 2011R1.1 to 2011R1.6 can be found here:
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... S-2011.TXT
The majority of the changes are bugfixes.
There is an upgrade article here:
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ctions.pdf
I have followed the upgrade instructions a few times and it works perfectly.
Both of the above links are on the main XI download page.
If the UPS devices support SNMP you should be able to monitor them. There may also be a wizard/plugin for your specific model of UPS on the nagios exchange.
Regards
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:27 am
by nscott
There have been a a lot of under the hood bug fixes, so I'll just post some of the bigger changes:
- Fixed a database maintenance cron that could cause table corruption for some users.
- Created a new performance graph API that fixes several known issues related to performance graphs
- Complete SSL support
- Fixed XSS vulnerability from certain AJAX calls
These are what has been done to up to 1.6. There are many more. Also, have you looked on the library under the user only downloads? We have that jam packed with components that add some very nice features.
http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... s/customer
and htel, thanks for the input!
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:58 pm
by arnab.roy
hi ,
I see support for complete ssl , has anything been documented yet ?
arnab
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:19 pm
by nscott
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:04 pm
by arnab.roy
HI After,
Following the instructions and changing the line items in ssl.conf apache is no longer starting up, hence I reverted it back. The nagiosxi.conf on my system doesnt look like what has been mentioned in the doc. Can this be double checked I tried this after upgrading from r1.2 -> r1.6
Cheers
Arnab
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:18 am
by nscott
Arnab,
Could you post your nagiosxi.conf ? If there is sensitive info in there then email it, otherwise I would like to see your .conf file to further advise your course of action.
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 6:11 am
by arnab.roy
Hi ,
Here you go my config file,
<Directory "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html">
# SSLRequireSSL
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.1
# AuthName "Nagios XI"
# AuthType Basic
# AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/htpasswd.users
# Require valid-user
</Directory>
Alias /nagiosxi "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html"
Cheers
Arnab
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:47 am
by nscott
Arnab,
It looks like your nagiosxi.conf is pretty much stock. You should be able to replace it with this: [make a backup of it of course]
Code: Select all
#NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:80>
<Directory "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html">
# SSLRequireSSL
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.1
# AuthName "Nagios XI"
# AuthType Basic
# AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/htpasswd.users
# Require valid-user
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/ca.key
<Directory "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Alias /nagiosxi "/usr/local/nagiosxi/html"
Now when httpd failed to start before, what was the error code? From your description, it sounds like it failed after you edited the ssl.conf. Since the only thing we changed in there was where it was going to look for a SSL certificate, can you verify that you moved the ca.crt and ca.key to the place that the doc specifies?
ls /etc/pki/tls/certs/
ls /etc/pki/tls/private/
And then double check that is what is entered under the SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile entry in the ssl.conf.
Re: Benefits of upgrading to Nagios XI R1.6
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:24 am
by arnab.roy
Hi ,
Are you sure you have typed in the whole code as I cant see the alias and closing tag for the Directory </>