Migrating old archived Nagios

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Thu Jul 8 18:18:56 CEST 2004


Chris Stankaitis <mailto:chris.stankaitis at datawire.net> wrote:
> Hey All;
> 
> Any issue with taking old Nagios logs and putting them on a new
> Nagios server to save the statistical data? 
> 
> Basically we gave our Nagios Box a HW Upgrade and I have been asked
> to move over all the old /var/log/nagios/archive/* stuff so that
> stats and such can be checked back over the last couple years.  
> 
> If there are any pitfalls to look out for I would appreciate the
> heads up. 

>From my experience the only thing you really need to watch out for is
that your log rotation method is the same on both (i.e. daily, weekly,
etc). This presumes that the host and service names are the same of
course. If you're using the same config files then you're good to go.

--
Marc


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