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Great thanks, I've made sure we as a team know to make small reversible changes and to work on config one person at a time, so hopefully we can avoid any situation like this going forward.

Cheers

Guys that's perfect! Config applied and it looks like changes that were stuck are through too.

Thanks so much!

What's the best way to avoid this in the future?

Cheers

Edit: can't type

PM sent sir!

Edit: we get the error about the ghost contact when trying to apply any changes to the config.

Hi Guys, I have ghost contact that does not appear in my GUI contact list but that does however appear in multiple config files, including the top level contacts.cfg. It's existence is stopping me from applying any new config. This seems to happened some time ago I have an error snapshot from 10/27 ...

So is that from the latest version?

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Hi There, Just checked, my action was CCM -> hosts -> find an old host -> delete -> apply config, my logs show simply three entries: 2016-11-08 17:51:35 17272 Nagios XI INFO localhost cmdsubsys: User applied a new configuration to Nagios Core 2016-11-08 17:51:34 17271 Nagios XI INFO nick x.x.x.x Use...

Hi Guys,

I admit to not looking too hard but is there a way to determine when a host was removed (deleted, not just deactivated) from the config?

Cheers,

Nick

Thanks Scott that's great.

Is there anywhere to see what changed every time a config update is applied?

Hi Guys,

I may be missing something but I can't find this and nor any indication of who made the config changes in the snapshot list.

Is this information available and if so where?

Thanks in anticipation!

Nick

Ok so a colleague picked this up and had come across the problem before. He went into the service config screen and checked the attached hosts, which I had already done, however I cancelled out and he hit apply as he had found this necessary before in a similar situation. Essentially this rewrites t...