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Good call @lmiltchev! I had thought that my service template didn't have any contact info in it, but I was mistaken. Once I removed the contact group from the service template, the config expanded out as I expected.

Thanks!

I have a weird problem with Nagios inheritance. Here's my setup: * Hosts are all in Hostgroups * Contacts are all in Contactgroups * Services are assigned to Hostgroups (not to Hosts) * Contactgroups are assigned to Hosts * Contacts and contactgroups are *not* assigned to services. I'm depending on ...

Great, thank you!

Would be nice to have it in the GUI, but I'm not complaining! I'll take it

Taking an example out of http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html, let's say you have a couple of definitions where one 'uses' the other, template style: define host{ host_name bighost1 check_command check-host-alive notification_options d,u,r max_check_attempts 5 name hosttempl...

Hello all, I looked around my Nagios Core & Nagios XI interfaces, but can't find a mechanism or a tool that would show me or calculate the 'effective' config for a host or service. This would be particularly useful where you make use of templates, especially nested templates. I searched through ...

Thanks!

And I just ran across the screen in the web console that describes the license: go to Admin (at the top), then click License Information under System Config in the side navbar.

Hello all,

I just inherited a Nagios XI system, and I'm trying to figure out if I've got the Standard or Enterprise version. I found the file nagiosxi/var/xiversion, but it doesn't indicate that distinction.

Thanks!

_Khalid