R: Upgrading

[Andreas Ericsson]

Marco Borsani wrote:
> Hi all.
> I am installing nagios-2.0b3 over nagios 1.2.
> In the original installation I had one file contained all contacts, contact
> groups, hosts, host groups and services ... HOW can I convert old sintax
> with newone?

Use the tools at http://oss.op5.se/nagios (see below on why they're not 
there right now).

Take a backup first though. I wrote them a long time ago and I won't fix 
your configuration for you if it breaks.

> Is there a documentation about new sintax ?

That would be the 2.0 documentation. Particularly the "What's New" section.

> In the bigger.cfg-sample and minimal.cfg-sample files I see some new
> "variables", but I need to know which are new rules.
> 
> Regards
> M.Borsani
> 
> PS: the conversion tools are not available on http://oss.op5.se/nagios
> 

They will be in a couple of hours. There was a major power outage where 
I live last night, and I forgot to reboot the server before I left for work.

> -}-----Messaggio originale-----
> -}Da: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> -}[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]Per conto di Andreas
> -}Ericsson
> -}Inviato: giovedì 10 marzo 2005 21.46
> -}A: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> -}Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] Upgrading
> -}
> -}
> -}Dimitri Yioulos wrote:
> -}> I installed Nagios 1.2-1 from Dag Wieers' rpm on a CentOS 3.4
> -}(RHEL AS 3)
> -}> box, and have it working great (except for status map icons,
> -}which I'll ask
> -}> about in another post).  I'd like to upgrade to 2.0-0b2 via
> -}rpm.  Can I do
> -}> this safely.  Are there any tweaks I have to make, or any gotchas I'd
> -}> encounter?
> -}>
> -}
> -}Config file formats are wildly mismatching. I wrote a couple of
> -}conversion tools once upon a time that might be useful to you.
> -}They're at http://oss.op5.se/nagios but be warned that no help is
> -}available for any of them and I take no responsibility in case they
> -}don't fix everything for you. I just know they worked nicely for me.
> -}
> -}--
> -}Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> -}OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> -}Lead Developer
> -}
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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