upgrade_nagios(8)

💅 upgrade_nagios(8) — the Nagios glow-up page

okay so bestie, welcome to the upgrade_nagios page from the Nagios manual — yes it's section 8, yes it's the sysadmin one, and yes we're gonna make it cute ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Upgrade Nagios Configuration — literally what it says on the tin, no cap 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

upgrade_nagios [-d] [-h] [-l] [-p] [-V] <main_config_file>

that's the whole vibe. flags first, config file last. periodt 💅

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so nagios_upgrade will upgrade your main nagios configuration file by adding/removing configuration values. that's it, that's the whole job — it goes in and edits stuff in your main config so it matches whatever the new version expects 💖

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• main_config_file — the main configuration file. on openSUSE systems this defaults to etc/nagios/nagios.cfg 👑
• -h — a helpful usage message 🥰 (everyone loves a helpful message)
• -V — prints version information about the script itself (not nagios, the script, iykyk) 🔍
• -d — enables debug mode: nothing will be done in real — all commands will be printed on STDOUT instead 🛑✨ it's giving "look but don't touch", perfect for a vibe check before you commit
• -l — provide another path to the logfile. default is /var/log/nagios_upgrade.log 📝
• -p — provide another path to the Nagios lock file (default: /run/nagios/nagios.pid) 🔒

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg — default configuration file for Nagios 💜
• /var/log/nagios/nagios_upgrade.log — logfile used by the nagios_upgrade script 🍓
• /var/run/nagios/nagios.pid — lock file of the running Nagios daemon 🔥

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Nagios is written and maintained by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org> 💖

This manual page was written by Lars Vogdt for the openSUSE operating system (but it may be freely used, modified, and redistributed by others) — generous icon behavior fr fr 🌸

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ngl bestie, always do a -d dry run first. it's right there. use it 🙈

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mwah 💋 — page by Lars Vogdt, dated 1 March 2014, living in the upgrade_nagios(8) slot of the Nagios manual. slay and goodbye 🦋✨