<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18702"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Is there any way you can clone your nagios box to a VM and test on the cloned box?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>I've just done that here testing for a planned 2.12 to 3.0.6 upgrade.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>You'll need to edit your nagios.cfg file to remove one obsolete option, and there are a few new options to merge in from the example nagios.cfg.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>I tested the worst-possible migration case - from self-compiled 2.12 to RPMForge-packaged 3.0.6 RPM.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>It was fun dealing with all the default directory changes, but not impossible.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>If you're compiling from source for both versions it should be a fairly painless migration.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>The side.html file is, as far as I remember, the same in both versions, so I think you can keep your old one and copy over the newly installed 3.0.6 version.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>My word, of course, is not gospel (and rarely is), so I'd advise you to test, test, and test again if you can.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>The directories which change depend on your config - a look at the paths specified in your nagios.cfg etc will point yopu in the right direction. (your logs might be in /var/log/nagios/, for example).</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>Phil</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=328393713-09042009></SPAN><FONT size=2 face=Arial>--</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Phil Randal | Networks Engineer</FONT> <BR><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T. 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If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and destroy all copies of it.</FONT></P> <DIV> </DIV><BR> <DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Anirudh Srinivasan [mailto:srianirudh@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 09 April 2009 14:29<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] nagios upgrade<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR clear=all>Hi I was planning to upgrade nagios from 2.9 to 3.0.6. We already have the pnp tool (performance graph at the side bar). </DIV> <DIV>My first question , while upgrading will the pnp tool get affected or messed up by any chance?</DIV> <DIV>I just want to be careful enough because nagios is one of our heavely used application.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As a backup plan already the complete nagios is being backed up by the cron job. </DIV> <DIV>My second question :</DIV> <DIV>Can i know which directory is the one that is dynamic meaning that keeps on changing day by day. Let me list some of them here as far as i know:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1)nagios/etc</DIV> <DIV>2)nagios/var</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If there is any can you please list them ....<BR>-- <BR>Anirudh Srinivasan<BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>