Editing Host Name and IP HELP ???

[xmurphylee]

I am looking for a procedure to edit a host (switch) name and IP. I have looked in Host Groups under "Add a new comment" which gives an option to edit the host name, althouugh I dont have permissions as of this instance, but is this where you would edit the host name. Secondly, I am searching how to update the IP so Nagios can log the new switch changes. I have went into the switch and configured for NAgios to recieve logging although it was already configured prior to new switch changes. I am using Nagios Core Version 4.0.4

Thanks.

[rkennedy]

To change these settings you'll need to locate the configuration file for that host definition. Do you know what file it's stored in?

The tree folder should start at /usr/local/nagios/etc/ for configuration files.

[xmurphylee]

No I do not, this will be my first attempt at getting into the linux server Nagios is running on to make the changes needed.

[xmurphylee]

No I do not know exactly where the file is stored on the Linux server, but I will be making an attempt to go in and make a change. I will start with the tree folder you suggested.

[xmurphylee]

Ok so, I did find the files and I did change the IP and Host name and saved. I than did a program restart and now I am receiving: Whoops! Error: Could not read host and service status information!

Any ideas?

[hsmith]

What did you restart?

You should restart the nagios service and the http service.

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service httpd restart
service nagios restart

[xmurphylee]

i restarted nagios services under system>processinfo> in the gui. I than tried your commands and i got a no such service for the httpd command and a Job for nagios.service failed.

[hsmith]

What OS are you running this on?

Try this:

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service apache2 restart

I would like to see the output of what happens when you attempt to restart nagios.

[xmurphylee]

linux

[xmurphylee]

i made the changes in the .cfg file where the host is located, do i need to compile the new change?