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<div>Cheers Richard,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>so in the case of new version running on X2, ie a merge what files/directories need copying from X1?</div><div><br></div><div>anybody able to enlighten me?</div><div><br></div><div>ian</div><div><br></div>
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On Thursday, 7 December 2017, 19:56:00 GMT, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil2@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><div>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="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">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="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><div><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><blockquote class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" type="cite"><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">On Dec 7, 2017, at 10:52, Ian Diddams via Xymon <<a shape="rect" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935yqt5986723060" id="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935yqt03194"><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">From: </b></span><span class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ian Diddams <<a shape="rect" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" href="mailto:didds3@yahoo.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">didds3@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></span></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">Subject: </b></span><span class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">migrating xymon</b><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></span></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">Date: </b></span><span class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 7, 2017 at 10:52:57 EST<br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></span></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;"><span class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">To: </b></span><span class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:-webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Xymon Mailing List <<a shape="rect" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a>><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></span></div><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;"><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></div>
<div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3">we have a xymon 4.2.3 server running on centos 5 (X1)</font></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></font></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3">I am charged with migrating that toi a new centos 7 server.<br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">So I now have a xymon 4.3.28 server running on centos 7 (X2)</font></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></font></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3">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 clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">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 clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">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="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></font></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3">Apologies of this is a FAQ!</font></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></font></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><font class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" size="3">Ian</font></div></div></div></div><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">_______________________________________________<br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">Xymon mailing list<br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"><a shape="rect" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935" href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xymon@xymon.com</a><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon<br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></div></blockquote></div><br clear="none" class="ydpb6b91409yiv7208086935"></div></div></div><div class="ydpb6b91409yqt5986723060" id="ydpb6b91409yqt56661">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Xymon mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Xymon@xymon.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xymon@xymon.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://lists.xymon.com/mailman/listinfo/xymon</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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