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I'm trying to clean up space on our Nagios server, and this is the directory I'm focused on right now. It's huge and contains files going back to 2022. Not very tmporary, if you ask me. Can I delete some of this stuff without harm? How far back is it safe to delete?

Every entry in that file has both a host and a service description--thus my confusion.

Hi, So here's an odd one. My boss was trying to apply a configuration to silence some alerts, and he got this error: <div>Error: Service has no hosts and/or service_description (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/services/aspace4.net.ualr.edu.cfg', starting on line 108)</div> What's particularly odd...

A user reported this to me today, and I've confirmed it: With SSO active, a user cannot update their email address. They get an error saying "Please enter your current password to change password or email." Any thoughts on how to fix this?

Hello @adamsj, It seems that your check is likely being blocked by a firewall. Can you check this with telnet/traceroute? Hi, bbahn, It turns out that somehow--and I'd love to know how--when we adjust a service for a host, some of that hosts entries in /usr/local/nagios/etc/services revert to an ol...

Hi, folks, We've got one Linux node which has nine disk checks on it. Of those nine, two are returning good results and seven are returning "ERROR: Description/Type table : No response from remote host <hostname>". According to inspecting the node, all nine should return good. I'm puzzled ...

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...