Nagios upgrade support

[lrnnetops]

HI team,

Currently, we are using nagios XI version 5.8.7. I would like to upgrade newer latest version of nagios.
does it supports all plugins and license?
Please let me know if any other things that I can consider during upgrade.

[jsimon]

Hi @lrnnetops,

We have a guide for upgrading your Nagios XI version. Per the Prerequisite notice at the top of this document, you'll need to first upgrade to Nagios XI version 5.10 and make sure to convert your database to MySQL, if your current server is using Postgres. There is a link in the document for that process if you need it.

Before beginning the upgrade process I'd recommend having a look at the Nagios XI OS compatibility matrix in the Upgrade Instructions document, as given the age of your XI install it is possible you may need to upgrade your OS as well.

Your plugins and license should not be impacted by this upgrade, although we can only vouch for officially provided Nagios plugins.

[kg2857]

Chances are with a nagios version that old you're running on an unsupported version of linux. You might try a yum update or apt [something] to see.

[lrnnetops]

Currently, we are using RHEL 7 and the database MYSQL

[Ariel19]

Hi @lrnnetops,

We have a guide for upgrading your Nagios XI version. Per the Prerequisite notice at the top of this document, you'll need to first upgrade to Nagios XI version 5.10 and make sure to convert your database to MySQL, if your current server is using Postgres. There is a link in the document for that process if you need it.

Before beginning the upgrade process I'd recommend having a look at the Nagios XI OS compatibility matrix in the Upgrade Instructions document, as given the age of your XI install it is possible you may need to upgrade your OS as well.

Your plugins and license should not be impacted by this upgrade, although we can only vouch for officially provided Nagios plugins.

Do I need to back up my data before upgrading Nagios XI to version 5.10 and converting the database to MySQL?

[jsimon]

@lrnnetops: As @kg2857 suggested, you'll need to upgrade your Linux distro here, as RHEL 7 is past EOL and is no longer supported for current versions of Nagios XI. Your database should be fine as is, although creating backups before doing major changes is always adviseable.

@Ariel19: It's never a bad idea to create a backup, but per the documentation I linked in my previous post we definitely recommend it before performing database migrations.

[lrnnetops]

does latest version of nagios XI supports rocky linux ?

[jsimon]

No, Rocky Linux is not officially supported for Nagios XI. You can find more information about our supported distros here.

[lrnnetops]

I had chosen Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for nagios XI latest version.
I'm trying to migrate old nagios data where it has hosted on RHEL 7 with MYSQL database
Please suggest best method to migrate safely without loosing data and unintrupted process.
if i run the backup script and copy it to new server. are those scripts work on the latest version of Nagios?

[sgardil]

I had chosen Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for nagios XI latest version.
I'm trying to migrate old nagios data where it has hosted on RHEL 7 with MYSQL database
Please suggest best method to migrate safely without loosing data and unintrupted process.
if i run the backup script and copy it to new server. are those scripts work on the latest version of Nagios?

If the scripts are Nagios owned then they should work with the newer version of XI. If they are self written you may work but also may need some updating since the version you currently on is quite old and you are looking to swap from rhel based system to Ubuntu. With being on Rhel 7 it will be a little bit more of a lift to get to Ubuntu 24 since you will need to do multiple back ups and restores. I attached an article below of a matrix displaying the latest version of XI that is supported in each distro.

Here is some documentation that might help with the process:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... I-2024.pdf
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... -1045.html