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Hi Folks,

Just noticed the Nagios Core migration feature that allows you to migrate your core to an XI instance and it looks great!

It would be very handy if we had something similar to migrate/copy configs etc from XI to XI. I know you can do a backup and restore fromone server to another but what we have is a scenario in our company where we have a primary, backup and dev instance. We don't want to have to manually reproduce all the same checks and monitors that are present on our Primary for testing on Dev. It would be great if we could migrate hosts, configs, monitors, contacts, service groups etc etc from Primary to dev server. This would allow us to easily keep the 2 servers in sync to to see if upgrades to newer versions breaks anything.

Hope the above makes sense on what we would like to achieve. Thanks

Hi,

It would be very handy if we had something similar to migrate/copy configs etc from XI to XI. I know you can do a backup and restore fromone server to another but what we have is a scenario in our company where we have a primary, backup and dev instance.

We started with a focus on Core migrations but there are plans to add more functionality related to XI to XI migrations. That said, every XI server is running core, so you can use the feature to pull in configs from an XI instance. However, It's not going to handle everything like the backup and restore feature does, especially user accounts.

Alternatively, running the manual process between XI systems is much easier since the configs are already in an XI compliant format. You won't need to use the import prep tool.

Migrating From Nagios Core

Let me know if you have any more questions.
Benjamin