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Hello. When installing our Nagios XI server i used the "offline" manual installer. At the time i was not aware of other options for performing the installation, but since then have discovered the "online" installation method using repositories at https://repo.nagios.com/. I'd much prefer we installed Nagios from RPMs rather than a tarball installer, as then Nagios would be updated via our normal maintenance processes (aka, "yum update") rather than manually.

Is there a way to convert our installation from the offline install to the online installation? I'd be willing to rebuild our Nagios server if necessary; is there a way to fully port the configuration to a new install that was done via the online method?

Some technical info:
The server runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (64 bit).
Nagios XI is at version 5.4.3 and was manually installed (5.2.5, then updated to 5.4.3).

Thanks in advance!

As stated in this documentation:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... onment.pdf

This procedure is NOT intended to upgrade a system that was originally installed online or started as a pre-created VM and then moved offline.

The problem is that the RPM is currently version 5.4.0.2, where as your existing installation is 5.4.3. Backporting would be more trouble than it's worth. You'd be better off spinning up a new machine installed with yum using our repository if your intention is to let yum manage upgrading the application. You can follow this documentation to migrate your existing Nagios XI data:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf