config files and upograding

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Miles O'Neal
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 11:18 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] config files and upograding
> 
> We've been running 1.2 pretty much since it came out.
> I'd liike to try a 2.x version, but nowhere am I
> finding anything about config file changes.  Can I

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/whatsnew.html


> just start with the 1.2 config files and have it work?

With only minor modifications. Some macro names have changed and moving
contact_group definitions from the hostgroup{} to the host{} definitions
was pretty much all I needed to do here but I have a pretty simple
config.

> If not, can someone point me to a doc about the steps
> to upgrade?
> 
> The upgrade from whatever nagios was before to nagios
> was a major pain.  (In fact, I wish there had been an
> option for using the old format; I prefer to manage config
> files with old-fashioned *nix command line tools, and
> that works much better when each line is an entire config
> command!)

Nagios 1.x does support the old Netsaint single-line definitions
(http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xoddefault.html). They were
specifically maintained for backward compatibility, you just needed to
specify that at compile time. 2.0 doesn't in favor of the more flexible
template definitions.

--
Marc

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