Nagios Support Forum

Hi All

Some advise please.

I have a Nagios Core box setup in datacentre B - this wasn't setup by me

We're wanting to use Nagios xi and I have installed this in Trial mode in Datacentre A. We do various acts of monitoring from the datacentre, so it seemed the best place to install xi.

Question - To move from Core to xi, should I

1. export all of the config off Core and Import into xi
2. setup xi completely from scratch, so I learn how to get it all running
3. setup some kind of distributed monitoring setup, where xi polls for information on Core

If yes to 3. How? I've been trying to get Core to send nsca data, but cannot see any documentation about how to get it to start using the send_nsca client

many thanks
Jonathan

The decision whether you are going to migrate your Core install to xi, or you are going to start from scratch is yours to take. It is always nice to get a "fresh" start on a clean system, but if you have a large install, you may want to import your config files from Core.

Please, review our documentation bellow.

1. export all of the config off Core and Import into xi

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ngfromcore

2. setup xi completely from scratch, so I learn how to get it all running

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ements.pdf

http://library.nagios.com/library/produ ... loads/main

3. setup some kind of distributed monitoring setup, where xi polls for information on Core

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ailability

Hi

Many thanks to the response on this.

I opted for the rebuild it from scratch idea. It gave me a chance to learn the product but I did do a form of importing.

I noticed that xi gives you a chance to import config files, which it updates from it's database, when you click apply. So I simply copied and pasted commands, services and hosts, from my Nagios 2 implementation, into the different config files. I made sure to adjust PATHs accordingly and use variables, such as $USER1$, where inbuilt options were also. Once happy, I selected the individual config files, in the import option, one by one and imported them.

This worked a treat.

My old Nagios 2 implementation wasn't massive, so it didn't take very long at all.

Cheers
JK

Glad you got it all imported.