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I noticed this in your post /usr/local/bin/nagios-sync -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg What is nagios-sync ? This leads me to believe it is more than just the nagios binary. Does it by chance sync you configurations and then execute the commands to the real binary? Hi Scott, TBH , I have no clue what are...

so what I did is removing the define hostroups { hostgroup_name Printers alias CUPS printers members rlprt01,rlprt20,rlprt70,rlprt80 } from the hostgroups,cfg then i used the command to restart nagios (service nagios restart) but i got an error which is Configuration validation failed Did you remov...

npolovenko wrote:@grafix143, Not a problem. May I go ahead and lock this topic up for you?

yes please

I am very new to Nagios , anyway I have it pre-installed i need to modify it a bit I watched the self paced learning video but i still failed to carry out the task so i need help. In the web interface under services in Nagios I have 4 number hosts to be checked which are printers they are not in use...

Thank you very much i really appreciate your input @npolovenko

Hi,

I am new in Nagios world , i have a preinstalled Nagios and i wanted to edit a cfg file to remove a host

but i can see two files one ends with *.cfg and the second is *.cfg~ !!

and if I removed the host from the file , do i need to restart Nagios ?