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NagVis versions and upgrades?
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:38 pm
by gsl_ops_practice
Hello,
We are seeing our release of 2014R2.7 is running NagVis 1.5.9. while it was posted May 29, 2014 in this forum that the included NagVis version in Nagios 2014R1.0 is 1.7.10. We started out with a 2014R2.5 VM and have since used the upgrade packages to patch up to 2.7.
What can we do to fix this? From my reading NagVis 1.8 is much more user-friendly than 1.5 (trying to create a map with with 1.5.9 and it is painful)
Thank you
Re: NagVis versions and upgrades?
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 4:56 pm
by abrist
You are welcome to attempt the upgrade, though it may be better off performed after a backup and through a remote session so one of the support techs can assist you throughout the expected (and unexpected) speed bumps. Currently, the included version of nagvis in XI relies on basic auth, and that can be a mess to properly configure in newer versions of nagvis. It may best formed in a test environment first to build a procedure for update. Additionally, browser caching will most likely cause javascript errors if you move to the newest versions, so users may have to flush the browser cache to get the updated nagvis to play nice. Do have a current support contract? If so, email
[email protected].
Re: NagVis versions and upgrades?
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 5:09 pm
by ssax
I've created a feature request for this:
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NEW TASK ID 6026 created - Nagios XI Feature Request: Upgrade Nagvis to the latest version
If you really have to have it now you could always try upgrading it yourself, I upgraded mine and it seemed to work fine, but
you should make absolutely sure that you have good backups/vm snapshots to revert to in case it causes problems and you should try it in a test environment first.
*** This will probably get reverted if you upgrade XI and I'm unsure what will really happen, make sure to have good backups/vm snapshots before upgrading XI as well.
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yum install rsync
cd /tmp
wget http://www.nagvis.org/share/nagvis-1.8.5.tar.gz
tar zxf nagvis-1.8.5.tar.gz
cd nagvis-1.8.5
sh install.sh
Re: NagVis versions and upgrades?
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:09 am
by gsl_ops_practice
Thanks for that, I will try in one of our test VMs to see how it behaves.
Please mark this thread closed.
Re: NagVis versions and upgrades?
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 8:46 am
by WillemDH
Fyi, I already created a feature request for this in July 2013 =>
http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=423 Please +1 it
Re: NagVis versions and upgrades?
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:34 pm
by jolson
Willem,
I have added a note to your tracker request. gsl_ops_practice, I have marked the thread as closed. Thank you both!