Importing NMIS8 configuration into NMIS9

Introduction

NMIS9 installer will automatically import all nodes from NMIS8, however, some of the custom configuration won't be imported to NMIS9. In order to do that, a few extra steps are required.

Step by step

1.  Install nmis (if not already installed)

Installing NMIS9
bash ./nmis9-9.X.Y.run
# read and answer the prompts, checking carefully the selections work for your environment.  
# NMIS does have good default selections and if you have tested those default selections before you can use -- -y to automatically select yes for all.
# nmis9-9.1.1.run should be replaced with correct version you elect to run.

2. Stop nmis8 and nmis9 from running

mv /etc/cron.d/nmis /tmp/nmis.cron
systemctl stop nmis9d.service

3. Replace the new default NMIS9 var/ and database/ directories for the old custom ones (NMIS8) by copying in the current data.

After migration you would consider removing the nmis8 directories and the old copies of the data.

rm -rf /usr/local/nmis9/database
rm -rf /usr/local/nmis9/var

cp -arfT /usr/local/nmis8/var /usr/local/nmis9/var
cp -arfT /usr/local/nmis8/database /usr/local/nmis9/database

4. Click here to download the import-nmis8-config.sh script and run it

bash ./import-nmis8-config.sh

5. Use the nmis-cli tool to fix the permissions

/usr/local/nmis9/bin/nmis-cli act=fixperms

6. Lastly, start and verify nmis9d is running

systemctl start nmis9d.service
systemctl status nmis9d.service