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Not at all. Please feel free to do so. Thanks again, very much appreciated.

Thanks for the advice. I will put it to good use.

Thank you for your diligence and corroboration on how nagios should run (as long as the user is doing what they are saying they are doing). I did find the issue, and, I believe, you questioned me about it earlier in this thread. Nagios was _not_ being restarted. Someone, or somehow, the pid file (in...

We do have customized locations in case that factors in: $ pwd /u02/nagios/var/nagios nagios]$ grep -n nss-app2 objects.cache 301: members nss-app1,nss-app2,nss-app3,nss-app4 401: host_name nss-app2 Hostgroup first, host afterward. This is the block for the 301 line reference: define hostgroup { hos...

Understood. Our configurations use the cfg_dir directive for this directory: /etc/nagios/objects/custom We do use the 'install' command to implement the change, which we also use the 'backup' option in it, so we do have files like this, nss_app_hosts.cfg~ (with an appended tilde). My understanding w...

It is restarting. It uses /etc/init.d/nagios restart I've also tried /etc/init.d/nagios reload and /etc/init.d/nagios force-reload all to no avail. I grep for the existence of the nss-app2 in this set; Here's the egrep for the bang solution: sudo egrep 'members|nss-app2' /u02/nagios/var/nagios/reten...

Host definition, which I do not remove: define host{ use linux-server ; Name of host template to use ; This host definition will inherit all variables that are defined ; in (or inherited by) the linux-server host template definition. host_name nss-app2 alias nss-app2 ; see if we can use /etc/hosts a...

Nagios version is Core: 4.0.8-2 I have defined a set of shared service checks using a hostgroup. I want to use the hostgroup so that I can remove a host from it and have the service checks continue for the remaining hosts. However, when I remove the host from the hostgroup, nagios continues to monit...