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Hi guys, When I was recently writing some code to update some custom variables i noted they are, in fact, case sensitive. However, when we list custom host variables on the website, they're all upper case. Is this intentional? I know we can get the list of all variables from a host directly from the...

Thanks Laura. Appreciate the update. Cheers James Hi James ( jseldon ), Thank you for digging into that some more. I was wondering about the purpose of the --version flag. To be honest, I am surprised the logic works at all, with --version , because many times a flag like that will cause all other f...

I'm using Debian 11. Both of these commands return a result of 0 result code [0] column_option [--column-statistics=0] This aligns with what I see directly out of the bash result variable: $ mysqldump --column-statistics=0 --version mysqldump: unknown variable 'column-statistics=0' mysqldump Ver 10....

Hi guys, When I logged in this morning I got an email that the Nagios XI backup had failed. I went looking into the logs and found the following: Backing up MySQL databases... mysqldump: unknown variable 'column-statistics=0' Error backing up MySQL database 'nagios' - check the password in this scri...

Thanks for verifying! I was able to get your code working so this suggests I've got something formatted slightly wrong. I'll keep messing around to figure out why. I appreciate your help. Cheers James Hi @jseldon, I was able to get it to work with the following script: import requests # Define the U...

Thanks. I tried this - same result. Is there a different endpoint for custom vars I'm missing? It seems like this should work. I've verified it's not updating the configuration files. Your PUT Payload would be this. payload = { "_location": location, "_cabinetname": cabinet_name ...

Hi all, I'm looking to add some custom host variables to track the physical rack location of baremetal servers but I seem to be having no luck getting this to work with the API adding the variables via host PUTs. I can manually add them when editing the host in the CCM and it works fine but given th...