Possibility to upgrade Nagios core to 4.4.2

[edwardvanhaute]

Hi,

We are running Nagios XI 5.5.2. Currently we are facing a bug with notifications, which exists in Nagios Core 4.4.1, and seems to be fixed in 4.4.2 (from what I understand).
This is the bug: https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/na ... issues/550

My question is this: would it be possible to upgrade the underlying Nagios core on our Nagios XI machine?

Just follow standard upgrade instructions for Nagios core?

Thanks for the help,
Edward

[lmiltchev]

After taking all of the precautionary measures (backups, snapshots, etc.), you can do the following:

1. Go to the /tmp/nagiosxi/subcomponents/nagioscore directory:

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cd /tmp/nagiosxi/subcomponents/nagioscore

2. Download the Nagios Core 4.4.2 tarball:

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wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/releases/nagios-4.4.2.tar.gz

3. Modify the upgrade file in a text editor by changing this line:

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pkgname="nagios-4.4.1"

to this:

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pkgname="nagios-4.4.2"

Save and exit.

4. Modify the apply-patches file in a text editor by commenting out the last three patches:

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# fix check_interval and retry_interval bug in Core 4.4.1
#patch "$pkgname/base/checks.c" < patches/fix_check_interval_retry_interval.patch

# fix passive checks sending recovery email when host was previously UP
#patch "$pkgname/base/checks.c" < patches/passive_sends_recovery_when_prev_state_was_up.patch

# fix flexible downtime in Core 4.4.1
#patch "$pkgname/base/checks.c" < patches/flexible-downtime-fix.patch

Save and exit.

5. Run the upgrade script:

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./upgrade

Let us know if this helped.

[edwardvanhaute]

Hi

I have performed the suggested procedure. (after performing a full backup ofcourse)
No problems were found.

The notification bug is also gone now.

Thank you very much for the help!
Edward

[lmiltchev]

I am glad I could help!