I will try the migration approach since we recently got the needed network
access to set up another icinga2 server and replace the Icinga1 server.  I
did experiment with the migration script about 6 months ago but did not try
to fix the generated files at that time.  Thanks for the heads up.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Jo Rhett <jrh...@netconsonance.com> wrote:

> Check out https://github.com/Icinga/icinga2-migration
>
> It’s not the cleanest conversion and generates some funky names, but we
> converted a nagios server with roughly 10k customized queries and I only
> had to spent maybe 2 hours hacking the output from migration to get the
> tests online. There are two issues to be aware of:
>
> 1. host definitions that are !negative matches get parsed wrong, see
> https://dev.icinga.org/issues/9776
>
> 2. if you were passing multiple arguments in as a single input string, it
> won’t work and you’ll have to separate those to distinct arguments
> https://lists.icinga.org/pipermail/icinga-users/2014-May/008241.html
>
> As stated above, I was able to convert a large site with many custom tests
> to work properly under Icinga in small number of hours. Those two hints
> will save you most of the time I lost going sideways ;)  What you will have
> isn’t pretty, but it gets Icinga stood up and allows to you iterate
> refactoring to take advantage of Icinga2’s features.
>
> On Sep 16, 2015, at 6:37 AM, Paul C <pkci...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Icinga2 is proving very flexible with sattelite servers but we have an old
> Icinga1 server with lots of customizations that would take a lot of effort
> to migrate to Icinga2.  Is there a way to push Icinga 1 status file to
> icinga2 and it will magically display all the hosts and services?  There
> are several thousand service definitions on the old box and a firewall
> prevents Icinga2 to connect to Icinga1 (but Icinga1 can connect to
> Icinga2).
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
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