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Well second dumb mistake. Thanks for the help was beating my head against a wall to figure out what I did wrong.

Sorry for the delay other projects pulled me away, I've attached the two I know what your asking for as far as host definitions are you meaning the switch.cfg I'm using to populate the list of items to be monitored? I added the "host" files in case and just using the default commands. I se...

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This is what I did and I restarted the services since then. They have been up for over 3hrs and when it reaches the next Host Check schedule it just makes a new one for 1-2 minutes out past the missed/failed Check.

I have been running my Core 4.2.4 for several weeks now with a small set of Cisco switches and after updating the config to include all of our switches the Host status has been in pending for the newly added switches for days. If I view from Services all the checks return with OK status and are upda...

Well I feel completely dumb had to remove the Default Host part read it 100 times and finally sunk in that it was only to make a new Host Group not to add it to the existing one.

So I understand the Host names are different and alias but the HostGroup I assumed was supposed to be the same so they all show under the same area Switches>Network Swtiches. ############################################################################### # SWITCH.CFG - SAMPLE CONFIG FILE FOR MONITOR...

I am trying to understand how to monitor more than one type of device in the root categories of switches and servers. I see there are two methods for the .cfg either the switch.cfg and edit it or the directory that looks at multiple .cfg. I am not sure if my Googleness is failing me but I keep findi...