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Hello:
We are running Nagios XI 5.4.11 on a RHEL 6.x physical server and will be migrating to a CentOS 7.4 (OEL) Virtual server running Nagios XI 5.4.12. I have read the information from here https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios-XI.pdf and watched the video from here https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=180
I do know that I will have to upgrade the existing Nagios XI production physical server from version 5.4.11 to version 5.4.12 first.
My question is:
Do I need to create the Users on the new server first in "Configure - Core Config Manager - CCM Admin - Manage Users" prior to the migration (and any other custom items) since I did not find any reference in the documentation or video indicating that the backup process actually backed up those items, too?
Thank you.

The backup + restore procedures you linked back up everything the system needs to be restored onto another system running the same version of XI: users, contacts, hosts, services, dashboards, reports, historical data, etc.

The only things that are not backed up are system-level binaries such as MySQL and Apache - hence the requirement to restore onto an existing fresh install of the same version, since that install takes care of these dependencies.

Thank you! However, I still need to ask since I won't assume and it didn't state - Host Groups and Service Groups included, too, yes?

tmcdonald wrote:The backup + restore procedures you linked back up everything the system needs to be restored onto another system running the same version of XI: users, contacts, hosts, services, dashboards, reports, historical data, etc.

The only things that are not backed up are system-level binaries such as MySQL and Apache - hence the requirement to restore onto an existing fresh install of the same version, since that install takes care of these dependencies.

@PhilG, Yes, they are included.

Thank you.
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Glad to help! I'll be closing this up now, but feel free to open another thread if you need anything in the future!