upgrade nagios appliance

[facc_se]

Hi,
we've been using nagiosxi for a few years now. we originally deployed from the pre-built vm appliance that was offered by nagios. the guest os on the appliance is running centos 6, which as you probably know is end of life. what is nagios's suggestion for getting this into a current operating system? is there a migration option to a new, pre-configured appliance (with a supported operating system)? to my knowledge there is no way to perform an in-place upgrade of centos 6 to centos 7 or 8. please advise.
-Dan

[gsmith]

Hi Dan

The upgrade path we recommend is to "move" your current version of NagiosXI on CentOS6 to the same version of NagiosXI on CentOS 7. This can be done by backing up your current installation and restoring it to the new server built with our corresponding ova by following this:

https://library.nagios.com/library/prod ... nagios-xi/

All of the ovas we currently have are on CentOS7. Let us know what version of XI you are currently using and we can provide a link to the OVA to download.

While not required, you may want to take this time to upgrade to the latest version of NagiosXI after you have migrated to the server with the new OS.

Reminder - each Nagios XI license is approved for up to three installations: one primary monitoring/production, one backup/failover, and one test environment. So you can perform your migration to a "test" server that once
configured will become your new production server.

Thanks.

[facc_se]

All of the ovas we currently have are on CentOS7. Let us know what version of XI you are currently using and we can provide a link to the OVA to download.

We are currently on version 5.7.2.

[gsmith]

Hi,

Here's the link for 5.7.2 64 bit:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... 7.2-64.ova

Thanks!