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Nagios Team,

We are currently having the NAGIOS demo version for the VMware Virtual Machine- Cent OS ...

We are planning to get 2 lincenses , one for coverting this DEMO to licensed version.

The other license we would like to install on Red Hat OS and we would like to know which version of Red Hat would work (5 or 6?)

Also after having the RHat version functioning, we would like to migrate the VMware- Cent OS to Red Hat . Would like to understand if that migration is possible, and if it is how to do it?

Regards,
Bala

Bala,

First thing I like to address is the licensing. With Nagios XI, when you buy one license, you get three independent installs of Nagios XI. Its meant so that you can install your primary Nagios XI, a backup Nagios XI and test-environment Nagios XI. But just so you know, you will be able to install it on three different machines.

Second point: Which version of Redhat? Nagios XI will install fine on RedHat 5 and 6. Keep in mind that they must be registered with the Redhat Network however. If they are not then Nagios XI will fail to install.

In order to migrate from one server to another, you'd need to move your perfdata (/usr/local/nagios/share/perfdata) and do Nagios XI Backup, then do a mysqldump for good measure and move all of those over to the new server, when you would reinstate them.