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Migration from Hobbit 4.2.0 to Xymon 4.3.0 beta 2

list Geoff Hallford
Tue, 8 Sep 2009 14:37:45 -0400
Message-Id: <user-829c70be99f6@xymon.invalid>

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 <user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid> 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