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Hi Team,

Require your assistance/guidance with the best and most effective way to upgrade our Nagios xi Instance.
We do have a lot of custom config's/checks applied on our instance.

From researching this topic, various upgrade options are available however it is "highly recommended that we take a backup of our existing data, perform a fresh install with CentOS 7 and copy our previous data from an older version of CentOS", is this the only option available or would you be able to provide other recommendations?

Installed Version: 5.7.5
CentOS Release 6.9 (Final)
Kernel 2.6.32-696.3.1.el6.x86_64 on an x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks
Branigan.

Hi there

I don't have the answer but i'm looking at the same problem currently. So instead i won't open another Request i'm looking forward to see what happens in this Ticket.

Hi,

We do have a lot of custom config's/checks applied on our instance.

Yeah, that is the recommended option. Keep in mind that your Nagios xi license provides 3 separate activations, production, test, and backup. So if you have a number of customer plugins installed, I would setup a test server setup to help smooth the migration. You'll likely need to install additional perl/python packages on the new server to get all the plugins running as before.

We have a knowledgebase article that covers the migration process in-depth.

Migrating Nagios xi to a different Server

Just let us know if you have more questions.

Benjamin