Warning: configuration file is out of date!

[ajayy]

Hi there,

I am trying to add users on nagiosxi server which is letting me do it without any errors. But when I create a contact group and add specific users to it then it comes up with an error

Warning: configuration file is out of date!

Please help and also can anyone make me understand how Nagiosxi users and contacts section would be useful .. i mean will naggiosxi server report to us daily or timely manner on things happening with users and contacts ... it is talking about giving specific access to the users we create ? excuse my misunderstanding and help me out

thanks

[nscott]

Setting up those users and contacts dictates who will be notified when something goes down. Say you have a hostgroup, lets call it Windows Exchange Servers, and you have a dedicated tech team who solely works with Windows Exchange Servers. Lets say you also have a second hostgroup, Linux MySQL Servers, which also has its own dedicated support team.

It wouldn't make much sense if everybody in your technical support staff got an email for every server that went down, so setting up contacts/contact groups for hosts and hostgroups allows you a way to make it so only the people who need to get the notifications will get them. Now obviously, this is useful for large-scale environments, but for smaller enivronments it can be overkill.

Also, setting contactgroups for hosts and hostgroups allow for multitenancy, by which I mean, if you set the user Sally as the contactgroup for a certain host/hostgroup, then only her and nagiosadmin will be able to see it in Nagios XI, which can be useful if you need the compartmentalization.

[ajayy]

Thanks for giving knowledge on users and contacts concept nscott

But when I try to add the hosts I am getting this "Warning: configuration file is out of date!"

Am i doing it incorrectly or is there another way to fix this

Please help

[nscott]

ajayy,

Do you have the proper timezone set in the /etc/php.ini? Make positively sure that the date.timezone variable is not commented out and is the proper timezone. When you're done, restart using:

service httpd restart

Then try to apply configuration again. Also, make sure you the clock on the server is set properly:

date

Should show you the current time.

[ajayy]

hi nscott,

I have changed the timezone and it works absolutely fine ... thank you so much