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Defining the directory does not include all of the config files, you need to manually specify new ones that you create Then the docs need to be updated. This directive is used to specify a directory which contains object configuration files that Nagios should use for monitoring. All files in the di...

I can do that - but it does seem to imply that 'cfg_dir' is not working properly.

In 'nagios.cfg' I have the 'cfg_dir' set to '<nagios path>/etc/objects'. It seems to find the usual suspects just fine (hosts.cfg,services.cfg, etc). Today I added a file 'sans.cfg' with the same layout as my 'hosts.cfg' file but it isn't getting picked up. Is there another setting required to add n...