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

bash ./nmis9-9.1.1.run -- -y

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)

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

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

4. Download and run the import-nmis8-config.sh script

bash ./import-nmis8-config.sh

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

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

6. Lastly, verify nmis9d is running

systemctl status nmis9d.service