Nagios Support Forum

Thanks - any particular reason it's not recommended? Adding in some new services that were variants of existing ones was extremely quick via the database & didn't have any issues when reloading config, however I understand if it's not recommended as it is subject to change. Our main concerns wit...

Hello, We've previously looked into migrating into Nagios XI (over a year ago) but time wasn't on our side, but we're back again. The general structure of how we want to create services, templates, groups & hosts has been decided so that we can essentially "tag" a host with the relevan...

Hi npolovenko , Hope you had a lovely Christmas and new year. I still think there's a bit of confusion here, I do not want to change the retention file. I want to know how to undo / revert any changes that have been applied through the web interface so that everything is a direct result of what's sp...

@npolovenko No I have modified the actual configuration files (which for us are located in ); but these changes are not overriding the ones that have been "modified" in the retention.dat file.

Hi dwhitfield, It's running CentOS 6 and the files are located within /var/log/nagios currently. However I think there's a slightly misunderstanding. The web interface actions properly update everything, my problem is undoing those actions so it then inherits properly from the configuration files on...

Hello, It seems someone has used the web interface to override whether notifications are enabled on certain services/hosts in the past. We're currently modifying the configuration files to disable some notifications on certain services, however I have noticed a variety of different hosts that use th...

Thank you, that is indeed a very detailed answer and much appreciated. Do you think NCPA is in a stable, robust condition? I was reading through the issues / bug reports and some of them are a bit worrying (crashes, incorrect reports etc.). We've used NRPE & NSClient for a long time and I've nev...

Hello, We're fairly new to Nagios XI and we are currently trialing the product with the view to purchase it in future if we believe it's the right decision. Our current set up uses Nagios Core + NRPE clients on Linux and NSClients on Windows. All the checks we perform are active checks, mostly withi...