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