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by rkcarter
Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:30 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Does nagios XI still only read its config at startup/reload?
Replies: 3
Views: 830

Re: Does nagios XI still only read its config at startup/rel

Thanks, I get all that. What was slightly opaque to me was whether nagios XI handled the files in any substantively different way than nagios core (which my colleague asserted). Glad to know that under the hood it's all about the same.
by rkcarter
Wed Oct 31, 2018 9:03 am
Forum: Nagios XI
Topic: Does nagios XI still only read its config at startup/reload?
Replies: 3
Views: 830

Does nagios XI still only read its config at startup/reload?

Hi, A colleague asserts that, with nagios XI, it's vitally important to minimize config file sizes, that nagios xi continually passes through the config so every optimization will help at run-time (granted, either way, optimizations might help at reload time, but we're talking something that takes s...
by rkcarter
Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:38 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Allow service template associated w/hostgroup
Replies: 5
Views: 2407

Re: Allow service template associated w/hostgroup

Thanks, that will work as long as the host-down and the service-down destinations are identical (which they generally are of course). However, I've had cases where the host-downs go to an infrastructure support group, and the service-down messages go to differing places.
by rkcarter
Mon Oct 29, 2018 9:22 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Allow service template associated w/hostgroup
Replies: 5
Views: 2407

Re: Allow service template associated w/hostgroup

Hello, rkcarter . So the only difference between the production service checks and non-production checks is that they notify different emails = contacts? Why not assign one service check two both contact groups, production team and non-production team? Also, some contacts can be integrated with the...
by rkcarter
Fri Oct 26, 2018 2:05 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: Allow service template associated w/hostgroup
Replies: 5
Views: 2407

Allow service template associated w/hostgroup

Here's my use case. We have a non-production environment and a production environment. The checks are the same within each corresponding hostgroup (example: thisservice-appservers-nonprod and thisservice-appservers-production). The only difference is that the non-production gets sends an email to th...