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Migrating from Nagios to Shinken Enterprise is very easy. You can import your previous Nagios configuration using the cfg-file-nagios source.

Configuration

To define a nagios cfg source:

Configure the module in the file /etc/shinken/modules/cfg-file-nagios.cfg
to define the behaviour of the module
Then configure the source in the file /etc/shinken/sources/cfg-file-nagios.cfg
to enable the source and call the module configured in step 1.
Then you must declare the cfg-file-nagios source in the file /etc/shinken/synchronizers/synchronizer-master.cfg.

During the Shinken Enterprise installation process, a cfg-file-nagios module called cfg-file-nagios is defined but set to inactive.
It is mainly to provide Administrator with an example.

sources/cfg-file-nagios.cfg

Property	Example	Description
source_name	cfg-file-nagios	Name of this source. Must be unique.
order	3	Order in the merge algorithm of this source data. Look in the Synchronizer page for more information about it.
import_interval	5	Launch this source every import_inverval minutes. If you set it to 0, the module will never be launcher automatically
modules	cfg-file-nagios	The module to launch
enabled	0	1 - Activate the source 0 - Viewed in the interface, but doesn't collect data nor import objects.
description	This source is about loading a Nagios/Centreon compatible configuration	A description to show on the UI.

module/sync-vmware.cfg

Here is the list of parameters required by the module to be updated the in cfg file.

Property	Default (if not set)	Description
*module_name*	cfg-file-nagios	Name of this module. Must be unique.
*cfg_path*	/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg	the path of the cfg file to import.

The default column shows the value used by the module if the Shinken Enterprise Administrator didn't update it.

Here there an example of the module definition:

define module{
	# Shinken Enterprise. Lines added by import core. Do not remove it, it's used by Shinken Enterprise to update your objects if you re-import them.
	_SE_UUID XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
	_SE_UUID_HASH XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
	# End of Shinken Enterprise part

	module_name cfg-file-nagios
	module_type cfg-file-import
	cfg_path /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
}

Having more than 1 cfg-file-nagios sources in the administration.

When you have many source of source of configuration (for exemple 2 nagios to import in your shinken), we advise you to create 2 sources.

If you keep only one source, you will have to merge the 2 nagios in the same directory. You may have naming conflict...

To have an additional source,

Copy etc/shinken/modules/cfg-file-nagios.cfg into an other cfg file name and configure it
Then configure the source in the file /etc/shinken/sources/cfg-file-nagios.cfg
to enable the source and call the module configured in step 1.
Then you must declare the cfg-file-nagios source in the file /etc/shinken/synchronizers/synchronizer-master.cfg.

Migrating from Nagios to Shinken Enterprise is very easy

You can enable the Nagios configuration file source in the file /etc/shinken/modules/cfg-file-nagios.cfg

All you need to do is to set the following parameters:

cfg_path /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

Note: you must copy all your Nagios configuration into the Shinken Enterprise.

Please also note that Nagios files are full path based, so you must put the Nagios configuration files in the same place than you did on your Nagios server.