[hobbit] Migration from Hobbit 4.2.0 to Xymon 4.3.0 beta 2

[Geoff Hallford]

Hi Stef,

Thank you very much. That's exactly what I was hoping would work. I will
reply to the list once this has been tested and confirmed on openSUSE 11.1.

Thanks.

Geoff


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Stef Coene <stef.coene at docum.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 September 2009, Geoff Hallford wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I have searched the wiki and the previous threads in the mailing list but
> > haven't found what I am looking for. I need to know if there is a way to:
> >
> > - Migrate the configuration and the data from a Hobbit 4.2.0 server to a
> > new Xymon server
> >
> > Since I want to upgrade the OS underneath from OpenSUSE 10.0 to OpenSUSE
> > 11.1, and also the Hobbit/Xymon version, it is a little more complicated
> > that an in place "make && make install".
> >
> > Thank you to anyone who can give suggestions. I can test out any
> > suggestions.
> I did some migrations.  It's not that difficult.  The config files and the
> stuff in
> the data directory is all compatible.
>
> So install xymon and configure a basic setup so you can check everything is
> working.  For the data migration:
> - stop xymon
> - delete the data directory
> - copy the data directory of the old server to the new server
> - migrate the config files in etc: don't just copy them, but take over the
> stuff
> that's changed.  Except for bb-hosts and hobbit-clients.cfg, I don't change
> that much in the config files.
> - start xymon
> - point your ciients to the new monitor server.
>
> Don't forget to change the owner of the files.  In your new setup this is
> probably xymon.
>
>
> Stef
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