The Icinga 2 configuration format introduces plenty of behavioral changes. In
order to ease migration from Icinga 1.x,
-Icinga 2 ships its own config conversion script.
+Icinga 2 ships its own config migration script.
-### Configuration Conversion Script
+### Configuration Migration Script
-Due to the complexity of the Icinga 1.x configuration format the conversion
+Due to the complexity of the Icinga 1.x configuration format the migration
script might not currently work for all use cases.
-The config conversion script provides support for basic Icinga 1.x
-configuration format conversion to native Icinga 2 configuration syntax.
+The config migration script provides support for basic Icinga 1.x
+configuration format migration to native Icinga 2 configuration syntax.
-The conversion script tries to preserve your existing template structure and
+The migration script tries to preserve your existing template structure and
adds new templates where appropriate. However, the original file structure is
not preserved.
-The conversion script uses templates from the Icinga Template Library where
+The migration script uses templates from the Icinga Template Library where
possible.
> **Note**
# /usr/bin/icinga2-migrate-config -c /etc/icinga/icinga.cfg -o /etc/icinga2/conf.d/migrate
-### Manual Config Conversion
+### Manual Config Migration
For a long-term migration of your configuration you should consider re-creating
your configuration based on the Icinga 2 proposed way of doing configuration right.