Nagios Support Forum

I am using the free license right now and I'd guess that is the Standard Edition not the Enterprise Edition as the Tools/Bulk Modifications menu invites me to buy EE.
Is there a config file I can edit, and have Nagios XI import or somehow sync with it?

I'm a Nagios XI newb and have setup several services with Alert Settings/Contacts set to my user Contact and now need to expand the alerts to more users besides me. Is there an easy way to update all my services to point to a new Contact "Group" that I setup, and not just my contact, w/o e...

check_http used $HOSTADDRESS$ so each URL I monitored had to be a unique host. Using this url monitoring wizard, must each URL be considered a host? I have multiple URLs serviced on the same machine, which is also already defined as a host using an IP for snmp monitoring of disks, cpus, services etc...

Thanks slansing.

How can I use the check_http or a similar plugin to check a URL for a website is responding? If I define a check_http service with CCM, I get a readonly command "$USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$" and the only way I can get it to work is to create a new host with the URL name. Is ...

Besides the FAQ and WIKI etc., is there any best practices doc for newbies? Such as pros and cons of monitoring a Windows VM with WMI vs. SNMP vs. using Nagios agents. Good things to monitor in Windows? Thanks, Dave