Upgrade/installation notes:


The NINO package contains the NINO Perl scripts and HTML docs.

subdirs in /var/nino: 

htdocs/		HTML docs and Java classes
mod_perl/	NINO Perl modules
conf/		Example httpd-nino.conf to use with Include into main httpd.conf
ucd/		UCD or Net-SNMP agent support, pls read ucd/readme.txt
scripts/        NINO startup and install scripts

>>> IMPORTANT:  Upgrade to NINO 4.1.5 or higher from previous NINO versions <= 4.1.4:

In older versions NINO <= 4.1.4 the crontab was used to schedule reports,
monitoring and status. In NINO 4.1.5 or higher the crontab is not used anymore.
Everything in NINO is now started as a NINO service and controlled by services.pl.
Please use the cleanup script and verify the next steps:


cleanup:

The cleanup script will delete NINO from the crontab, remove startup scripts 
and restore Apache httpd.conf. It will also delete all statistics data and the NINO code.

  cd /var/nino/scripts
  ./cleanup

If you do not want to use the script and need to preserve data, do it step by step:

  crontab -e
  delete the NINO entries here: perl /var/nino/mod_perl/xyz.pl .... etc.

Stop NINO services and httpd:

  cd /etc/init.d
  ./httpd stop
  ./nino stop
  rm -f nino

Make backup of configuration:

  cd /var/nino/
  tar -cvf backup_nino_conf.tar conf/* mod_perl/nodes.txt

This tar file will contain the snmp.ini with all your customized settings and presets.


upgrade:

Now start the upgrade: unpack the new NINO files, just overwrite the old files.

  cd /var
  gunzip nino41x.tar.gz
  tar -xvf nino41x.tar

Run the install script:

  cd /var/nino/scripts
  ./install

OR: copy the new nino startup script from the scripts dir to /etc/init.d

Restore your configuration:

  cd /var/nino
  tar -xvf backup_nino_conf.tar


>>> IMPORTANT:

If you want to keep your hosts and monitoring data in MySQL, do NOT run the install.html,
the install.html will destroy all data and create all tables from scratch. The installer
should only be used the first time you install NINO.

  Do NOT use: http://localhost/nino/install.html

To start NINO, goto:

  cd /etc/init.d
  ./httpd start
  ./nino start

Start the browser and go to:

  http://localhost/nino/main.html


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Enjoy NINO!