Upgrade Nagios

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This How To covers the process of upgrading Nagios 3.* to the latest 3.* version. You may want to backup the /usr/local/nagios/ directory prior to upgrading.

Preparation

Download the Latest Version

• Create a downloads folder

mkdir /root/downloads
cd /root/downloads/

• Download Nagios

wget http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.x.tar.gz

• Extract Nagios

tar xzf nagios-3.x.tar.gz
cd nagios-3.x

Installation

• Upgrade Nagios

./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd
make all
make install

• Verify Configuration and Restart

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
/etc/init.d/nagios restart

The new version of Nagios should now be installed.