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Ah "Commands"!

I was looking at services and forgot about commands, i have copied the command as you suggested and added an arg so i can specify per service.

Thank you!

Hi, I have a service that does a ping check, the service itself has no values set but it does have a template assigned to it. When i look at that template i can see the command $USER1$/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$,$ARG2$ -c $ARG3$,$ARG4$ -p 5 I want to change the -p 5 to -p 10 How do i make...

Thank you for the reply, i was looking at the API as an alternative and earlier this morning i came across this post https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=95772#p95772 which states: You cannot remove a service in Nagios XI by simply modifying the config file manually from the CLI. The con...

Hi, I am having an issie making changes to config via the Import Config File. I initially wrote a script to generate host/service config files and import them using the XI API, this works great for creating the host and services however if i then update the config file, say for example removing a se...

Got it working, it was an issue with my SMS script, not sure why hosts worked but services didn't be i needed to wrap a couple variables in quotes, since that, it's working great.

Hi, I have added a service to monitor that i can enable/disable to test notifications but having a little fun with it that someone can hopefully help me with. Email Notifications are coming through to me fine for both Host and Service however SMS notifications only come through for Host notification...

Hi,

Given the later test confirmed the ping working fine from another linux box which is also a VM on the same hyper-v machine, i am going to install Nagios XI from scratch on a fresh Ubuntu install rather than using the Nagios XI Hyper-V image and see how that gets on.

Thank you.

Cheers,
Jamie

I'd make a host check with check_ping or check_icmp, a service check on the httpd service and a check that verifies the web site returns a certain string. Thank you for your reply and apologies for my lack of knowledge on this but does this mean adding a new host (using the wizard or other method) ...

Hi,

I was able to ping continuously without issue from the server terminal.

Or do you you mean running a nagios specific command in the terminal?

Cheers,
Jamie

Hi, I have just started trialing Nagios XI and add a "Website Monitor" via the 'Website (Monitor a website)' config wizard. I am having an issue with the Ping service though, this is looping through being Up and Critical. It is also reported as flapping. If i ssh onto the server, i can pin...