Migration of a platform with Poller Display¶
Migrate your Centreon Central¶
If the module centreon-poller-display-central-1.6.x is installed:
Go to Administration > Extensions > Modules menu and uninstall the centreon-poller-display-central
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.
Note
If you have Centreon EMS modules, it is necessary to update these repositories. Contact your Centreon support for these. Then ask new licenses for those.
Migration a server from Centreon Poller Display to Remote Server¶
Go to the Administration > Extensions > Modules menu and uninstall the Centreon Poller Display module.
If the module was installed using an RPM package, remove this one using the following command:
# yum remove centreon-poller-display
Note
If you have Centreon EMS modules, it is necessary to update these repositories.
Contact your Centreon support for these. Then ask new licenses for those.
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.
- Go to Administration > Extensions > Modules menu and install the
centreon-license-manager module.
Execute the following command:
# /usr/share/centreon/bin/centreon -u admin -p centreon -a enableRemote -o CentreonRemoteServer -v @IP_CENTREON_CENTRAL
Note
Replace @IP_CENTREON_CENTRAL by the IP of the Centreon server seen by the poller
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.
- 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
- On the Centreon Central server, edit all pollers and attach them to the Remote Server using the selection list.
Note
Do not forget to generate configuration of your Remote Server.
Note
A Centreon Remote Server is a server that is self-administered. Thus, the configuration of the LDAP directory, users and ACLs are specific to this server and must be configured via the Administration menu.