Hi,

I just migrated some of our Hobbit servers to Xymon.

Some background information:

• compiled from source
• all files are checked in in subversion
• all files are installed in /home/users/hobbit/server
• the data directory is /home/users/hobbit/data
• the client is installed in an other directory and is not migrated (it is integrated with other management tools)
• ubuntu 8.10

Steps done to upgrade from Hobbit to Xymon:

• stop hobbit server as user hobbit

• change the account hobbit:

  • change username: usermod -l xymon hobbit
  • change home dir: usermod -d /home/users/xymon xymon

• mv /home/users/hobbit /home/users/xymon

• compile xymon from source and install all files in /home/users/xymon/server -> all config files are migrated from hobbit to xymon except 1 file but I don't remember wich one :( I think it was hobbitserver.cfg and that 3 variables for the urls still point to /hobbit.

• Start xymon server as user xymon

These are the basic steps. The most important step is the rename of the directory so that if you do a 'make install', alle the config files are migrated to Xymon.

I did this for 1 server. The other servers are migrated with subversion by switching to a new repository with 'svn switch'.

I also added this to hobbit-apache.cfg so all old hobbit url's are redirected to the xymon equivalent:

Redirect van hobbit naar xymon url

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/hobbit/(.*) /xymon/$1 [R] RewriteRule ^/hobbit-cgi/(.*) /xymon-cgi/$1 [R] RewriteRule ^/hobbit-seccgi/(.*) /xymon-seccgi/$1 [R]

Stef