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Sure: define service { host_name hostA,hostB service_description chef-server use default-service check_command check_chef-server } Similar happens with multiple host groups: define service { use default-service service_description disk hostgroup_name aix,base,solaris-base check_command check_disk } ...

Hi Scott,

Yes it's Nagios XI 5.4.13

Thank you again. So I can confirm if I follow the "proper import and all the prep that comes with it" those specific services still get duplicated, and exactly that is the issue here :) There's something wrong with the import process for those services - the import checks whether that CCM ...

Hi tmcdonald, You are right but I will add the solution here for others with the same problem. I tried mcapra's suggestion and it works however in that case we lose XI functionality - XI won't know about the config in the static folder so it can't control hosts/services/notifications there. Please v...

Thank you mcapra. I'll take a look at the doc. Meanwhile we opened a support ticket (773087) too with even more information that we discovered, I add them here as well: So essentially if the service uses comma separated list for host_names it gets duplicated in CCM during import. define service { .....

Hello, We used Chef and the classic Nagios cookbook to manage Nagios core. Now we have XI and we want to use it with the Nagios cookbook just because it's already there and works fine. So we generate the core config in the XI's import folder and call reconfigure_nagios.sh. I can confirm the core con...