Upgrade Nagios version 3.3.1 to 3.4.1
In this article You can learn how to Upgrade Nagios version 3.3.1 to 3.4.1 It’s very easy steps to upgrade the Nagios.
NAGIOS is an open source compute system monitor, network monitoring and infrastructure monitoring software application. Nagios offers monitoring and alerting for servers, switches, application, and services. It alerts users when things go wrong and alerts them again when the problem has been resolved. In short Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program. It monitors specified hosts and services, alerting you to any developing issues, errors or improvements. Lest start how to upgrade nagios.
We first make a backup of our Nagios configurations present in the event, and then do the update.
Here is the command to make a full backup of your file Nagios:
# cp –ar /etc/nagios/root/nagios_3.3.1_backup
Once backup done then we will download the latest version of the Nagios 3.4.1
# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.4.1.tar.gz
After download the version extract the archive
# tar -xvzf nagios-3.4.1.tar.gz
After extracted you can start to install the new version of the Nagios 3.4.1
# cd /nagios
#. /configure-with-command-group = nagios / / Set the appropriate group, if you do not use the group “nagios”
# Make all
# Make install
After installation of the Nagios you can confirm everything is ok or not.
#/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
If you did not get any error it means everything is working fine.
It remains only to restart Nagios:
# Service nagios restart
It’s very easy to upgrade the nagios version 3.3.1 to 3.4.1.