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bwallace wrote:No worries, to delete a file just do :

rm <filename>

...that will prompt you, asking are you sure? for every file so to avoid that use -f (force) like so

rm -f <filename>

To delete multiple files ending with '.log' at once use *

rm -f *.log

Thanks much for the help!

You're welcome! We'll leave this thread open in case you run into any road blocks so do provide an update at some point - thanks - Another dumb question on this...what is the actual command to delete one of the log files? I found the var/log to be very full, but now I need to learn how to actually ...

Is your XI is on a physical server or VM? This doc is written for XI + VM but applies to physical servers at least as a starting point: Nagios XI - Running Out Of Disk Space On The Nagios XI VM https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=26 If you're running XI in VM refer to our documentation on ...

All,

I am looking for some solid instructions on how to cleanup the primary partition on my Nagios XI server.

I am running out of disk space, and I know there is a way I have seen floating around regarding how to properly clean old logs/files without breaking anything.

Thanks much!

Yes, everything is working correctly through the web console.

Unfortunately that particular site admin is no longer with us so I have to find another way. Or I will have to do a full backup & redo the server entirely...ugh.

Thnx

Good Afternoon, One of my site admins has reset the Admin account to log into the command line/Centos OS for my Nagios XI server. The web portal works just fine, but I need to log into the command line to do some cleanup & adjust disk size. Is there anyway to log into the command line to reset t...

Can you please post an example of the check you're using? You should be able to use NSClient++ without a problem. NSCP is NSClient++ (not a windows service) Here's an example - windows-service-check_nt.PNG Thanks for the response...I just figured it out. I needed to add it as a process instead of a...

ssax wrote:How are you monitoring them currently?

Are you using NSClient++ - The Windows Server monitoring wizard should list them.

Are you using SNMP? - The Windows SNMP monitoring wizard should list them.

NSclient++ is what I use

I currently have a handful of Windows 2008R2 servers that run NON-MS based services critical to our production environment. I have tried multiple times to add them to Nagios using the display name/process but it never receives notification that the service is running. It comes up as CRITICAL with no...

tgriep wrote:Did you power down the Nagios server before resizing the drive in VMWare?
If the server isn't shutdown, it could cause issues and may not boot after resizing.

I did not shut down the VM since normally you can just hot add disk...I will have to shut it down, add, and bring it back up...then retest.