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Hi Nagios team ,

Is there any software to backup my nagios configuration ? Because maybe we change our main server .

If not , having a copy of the cfg files (i mean files in /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects) , is enough to backup your Nagios configuration ?

Thanks

As long as you don't have any add-ons like ndoutils or nagiosql, you have only 2 things really special for your config, the directory with all the configs (nagios.cfg, commands.cfg, myhost.cfg, myservice.cfg, etc) and then the perfdata if you have it and care to take it with you.

Obivously it would be best to keep your old server together until you've crated a safe and complete plan to get all your data moved. Test it, document it, then do it.

jdalrymple wrote:As long as you don't have any add-ons like ndoutils or nagiosql, you have only 2 things really special for your config, the directory with all the configs (nagios.cfg, commands.cfg, myhost.cfg, myservice.cfg, etc) and then the perfdata if you have it and care to take it with you.

myhost.cfg and myservice.cfg are in nagios 3.x right ?
for my nagios 4.x i have windows.cfg , ok so for the configs its this the directory /objects/

and for the perfdata, i don't know in what directory it is .

thanks

ziedmahjoub wrote:and for the perfdata, i don't know in what directory it is .

It is likely that you don't even use perfdata. Do you use an add on product such as pnp4nagios or mrtg to view the perfdata, or are you just using Nagios for Monitoring and Alerting?

As for the names of the .cfg files, it's irrelevant as long as they're specified properly in nagios.cfg using the following directives:
Make sense?

Its ok thanks , but maybe i'm planning to install mrtg . For now no problem

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