Migration of a platform with Poller Display¶

Migrate your Centreon Central¶

If the module centreon-poller-display-central-1.6.x is installed:

1. Go to Administration > Extensions > Modules menu and uninstall the centreon-poller-display-central

2. Remove the associated package:

   # yum remove centreon-poller-display-central
   

If your server uses a CentOS or Red Hat v7 operating system, refer to the update procedure to update your Poller Display server; else refer to the migration procedure.

Migration a server from Centreon Poller Display to Remote Server¶

1. Go to the Administration > Extensions > Modules menu and uninstall the Centreon Poller Display module.

2. If the module was installed using an RPM package, remove this one using the following command:

   # yum remove centreon-poller-display
   

3. If your server use a CentOS or Red Hat v7 operating system, refer to the update procedure to update your Poller Display server; else refer to the migration procedure.

4. Go to Administration > Extensions > Modules menu and install the

   centreon-license-manager module.

5. Execute the following command:

   # /usr/share/centreon/bin/centreon -u admin -p centreon -a enableRemote -o CentreonRemoteServer -v @IP_CENTREON_CENTRAL
   

This command will enable Remote Server mode:

Starting Centreon Remote enable process:

  Limiting Menu Access...Success
  Limiting Actions...Done

  Notifying Master...Success

  Set 'remote' instance type...Done

  Centreon Remote enabling finished.

6. SSH Key exchange:

If you don’t have any private SSH keys on the central server for the Centreon user:

# su - centreon
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

Copy this key on the new server:

# su - centreon
$ ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/id_rsa.pub centreon@IP_POLLER

7. On the Centreon Central server, edit all pollers and attach them to the Remote Server using the selection list.