suggestions for upgrading Nagios

[Fred]

I believe there are a number of changed configuration variables that
will be obvious when you try to start a 1.2 config under 2.0b*, I know
there were a number of syntax errors when I upgraded.

-FredC

--- Greg Vickers <g.vickers at qut.edu.au> wrote:

> Matt,
> 
> Matthew Agle wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >             I have currently running Nagios version 1.2 and looking to 
> > upgrade to 2.04b.  Has anyone done this and/or performed a upgrade and 
> > if so what suggestions/tips would you have?  Is it easier to upgrade or 
> > simply install to a different location and point the config files 
> > there?  Thanks in advance for any feedback!
> 
> RTFM is your friend. I would very carefully read what is new in version 
> 2.0, in the "What's new in this version" section of the online manual.
> 
> http://www.nagios.org, Support, Online Documentation, v2.x HTML, Table 
> of Contents, What's new in this version....
> 
> If I were you, I would pay special attention to the Hostgroup changes.
> 
> Take a copy of your 1.x config and run the 2.x binary against it, see 
> what is broken, that will give you a good starting point.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> [p.s.] OK, ok, the only change you *have* to make is moving the new 
> location of the contact_groups directive... but there's so much other 
> new and better stuff in v2.x, have a look and see what is applicable to 
> your situation.
> 
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