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Hi, bbahn, So long as there are the same number of perfdata points for the given host, just changing the data source for a host will not stop the perfdata as the check is controlled by Nagios Core and the check listed in the XML is ornamental and is updated when the check is ran. Is it not updating ...

Hi, folks, I'm puzzled by something. As an experiment, I changed one host's string to the desired new string, both on the host and on our Nagios installation in /usr/local/nagios/etc/services/hostname.cfg . It's doing what I expected--it's responding with current information. When I look in the cons...

By the way, in case you're wondering, this is an installation I inherited. I didn't set it up and I don't fully understand its innards.

Hi, @ajcoil, I would recommend first checking out the following forum post, as I believe you are trying to accomplish something similar: https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=334641 That is similar to what I'm doing; however, I've got to do it on a defined (by host list) subset of the ho...

Hi, @ajcoil, I would recommend first checking out the following forum post, as I believe you are trying to accomplish something similar: https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=334641 That is similar to what I'm doing; however, I've got to do it on a defined (by host list) subset of the hos...

Hi, folks, We're changing out our community strings for SNMP and I'm trying to figure out how to do this programmatically. My best thought is to go into /usr/local/nagios and change the items in ./etc and ./share which match those strings. The stuff in ./var I assume is volatile and will change when...