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@bdoyd1e990, try placing the last argument to a user macro, in the " /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg " file. Example: $USER10$="TEST TEAM NAME" Then, you can use the macro as $ARG3$: service_notification_commands Send_BMC_service_P2_test!email@test.com!2!"$USER10$" ...

Just tried that and quoting the white space doesn't work either
getting the same issue

Yes this can be locked

Im trying to setup a number of contacts that will all call the same script but pass a variable for there team name using ARG macros, The problem is that most if not all these team names have spaces which is stopping my config from reloading. My command is (i've removed all the other options for send...

Yes I added the user to the correct file,
Although I've found my issue.

I do feel a bit stupid as I missed where the filename is specified as passwd.users not htpasswd.users in httpd.conf

My htpasswd file is in a different location, so here is the requested info [root@n0lnagp01 ~]# ll /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 99 Jan 26 12:00 /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users [root@n0lnagp01 ~]# httpd -v Server version: Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Server built: Mar 8 201...

No i'm not getting any errors when i try to change the nagiosadmin account

I am running nagios core 4.3.2 on a Red hat 7 server, And I wanted to create a read-only user for the web gui, I added a user to htpasswd.users and added the username as below into cgi.cfg [root@n0lnagp01 nagios]# grep nagiosview cgi.cfg authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin,nagiosview authorized_...

Thanks for the help,

SNMPTRAPD wasn't running,

It's all workign fine now and I'm feeling like an idiot

nagios.cfg ############################################################################## # # NAGIOS.CFG - Sample Main Config File for Nagios 4.3.2 # # Read the documentation for more information on this configuration # file. I've provided some comments here, but things may not be so # clear without...