<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I would think that if you didn't already have xymon on the new server, it'd just be a matter of making a tarball of the xymon home directory including data and configuration files, copying it to the new system, extracting it in the appropriate place, and making the manual changes.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But with both already running, it's not an upgrade, it's a merge. And I don't know that there are really tools for that, _unless_ no client appears in both, in which case I'd think it would be straightforward enough.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 7, 2017, at 10:52, Ian Diddams via Xymon <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" class="">xymon@xymon.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ian Diddams <<a href="mailto:didds3@yahoo.co.uk" class="">didds3@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">migrating xymon</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 7, 2017 at 10:52:57 EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Xymon Mailing List <<a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" class="">xymon@xymon.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;" class=""><div class=""></div>
<div class=""><font size="3" class="">we have a xymon 4.2.3 server running on centos 5 (X1)</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">I am charged with migrating that toi a new centos 7 server.<br class=""><br class="">So I now have a xymon 4.3.28 server running on centos 7 (X2)</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">So... how do i go about copying WHAT from X1 to X2, and how do I get around the "gotcha" that is the changes from 4.2 to 4.3. I see that there is an "upgrade" script, and a list of manual stuff as alternative actions... but they both rather assume you are staying on the same server to upgrade only xymon ie everything is in situ.<br class=""><br class="">It is not viable to upgrade on the existing server as its a live production environment nor is it viable to install 4.2/3 on the new server due to time constraints.<br class=""><br class="">I short I need to know how to efficiently migrate the 4.2.3 files and data and history etc from X1 to X2.</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">Apologies of this is a FAQ!</font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="3" class="">Ian</font></div></div></div><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Xymon mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com" class="">Xymon@xymon.com</a><br class="">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>