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Aha, that's it. Thanks for the assist! Here are the relevant service definitions in case others are affected and would benefit from more information: define service{ use generic-service host_name !controller7 hostgroup_name switches service_description Uptime is_volatile 1 check_command check_switch...

Problem: This host appears to be using the contact group "call-everyone" when it should be using the contact group "email-network". Background: A year ago everything that went down triggered a call to everyone. To make that better I attempted to create different contact groups fo...

Wow.

That works (of course)! I have no idea how that typo got into our config but it is now working again.

Thanks!

Yes, apache has been restarted as well.
Thanks for the continued help!

Yes, the service has been restarted after making the change. If there was a way to get this working my team would really like the ability to place a system in downtime without being on the call list when that system is down. I am hesitant to update to a newer version without knowing that this proble...

This is how my system is configured however the problem remains. Users cannot put systems they are not contacts for into downtime.

Thanks for the confirmation I'm doing this correctly, we'll work around this until we are able to install a new version.

Nagios Core 4.3.1 I believe the problem is related to nagios/etc/cgi.cfg where I have configured: authorized_for_all_services=user1,user2 authorized_for_all_hosts=user1,user2 user1 and user2 are unable to schedule downtime for hosts that they are not a contact for user1 and user2 are able to schedul...

I have the same problem as you, however I have found that my system call works when ran as root but does not work (gives the plugin timed out message) when being ran as the nagios user. Have you tried running this on the command line as nagios? I suspect that is your problem. I don't know how to fix...