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Thanks - I'm anxious to hear results

Thank you, Scott - this is what I was looking for.

This is exactly my issue - forcing notifications to be enabled.

Is there a way from preventing the free variables from being added for each new XI user?

Is the contact itself set to skip? Rather than On or Off? If it is set to skip it will inherit the value from the object above it, user, template, etc. By default contacts that are created as a "monitoring contact" from the user creation process are set to skip, and thus inherit their val...

The issue I'd like to resolve is when creating new user in XI (admin -> users) and checking box to create corresponding contact, additional parameters are added to contact.cfg that I need to remove. These additional parameters are added, because users can modify their notification options (but cont...

XI notification handlers are not being used. I've defined my own and assigned to xi_contact_generic. I'm using xi_contact_generic because it's automatically assigned to new contact when adding via XI. I'd like to keep new user creation as automatic as possible. The issue I'd like to resolve is when ...

As discussed in previous thread, I am not using built in xi_notification_handlers for various reasons, and looking to keep my contact.cfg file as clean as possible. I've verified that creating contact via CCM and then creating user in XI (admin->users) without checking box to associate with contact ...

I'm starting a new thread since this thread has not been very productive.

Then you would go to CCM -> Contacts -> Modify Scott - this is my issue. Modifying via CCM does not remove parameters. Current contact.cfg define contact { contact_name username alias User Name host_notification_period username_notification_times service_notification_period username_notification_ti...

You can disable notifications as a whole across multiple hosts/services with the bulk modification tool: CCM > Tools > Bulk Modifications Tool. This tool requires Nagios XI 2012 Enterprise Edition to be used. Thanks, but not looking to disable - looking to remove from contact.cfg completely.