On 18 February 2010 02:29, Lylex Ryan <lylexr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > In upgrading from nagios (v2) to nagios3, I'd like to do a fresh install of > nagios3 and start with a clean sheet of (config) "paper". But can I do this > while V2 is running production? > > Since the packages have different names, I thought it might work. But they > probably would both have /etc/nagios and other default directories in > common. Maybe if I installed from the tar-ball, I could specify new > directories for V3, but I'm also trying to avoid that learning-process and > use a pre-packaged rpm. > > Maybe installing V3 on a different server all-together, then moving it to the > production machine would be a way.
I think the standard advice is no you can't run more than one instance on a single operating-system (of course you probably can if you put enough effort in to it). I would recommend against installing your new Nagios 3 install with non-standard install paths - it could make installing add-ons in the future (for example PNP graphing, NagVis dashboards etc,) difficult if everything is in the wrong place. Personally, when I upgraded from 2 to 3, I put the 3 install on a new server and 'migrated' hosts and services across from old to new gradually over a period of a couple of months. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null