Remove Host/Service from monitoring using command line

[Avinash91]

Currently I am able to remove hosts /services from monitoring on the Nagios portal using the CCM. I would like to do the same using a script on the command line.
I have

created a host "remove_host_monitoring" and corresponding service "remove_service_monitoring". I understand that all the hosts and services config files are present

under the path /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/
I moved to the folder /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/ using cd /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/
I am not able to remove the service

from monitoring using the command ./nagiosql_delete_service.php –-config=remove_host_monitoring.

The error that I am getting.
./nagiosql_delete_service.php --

config=remove_host_monitoring
o/p:
URL: http://localhost/nagiosxi/includes/components/ccm/
Unable find services in nagiosql database.
Usage: ./nagiosql_delete_service.php

[--id=<service id>] [--config=<config_name>]
I also tried to apply configuration using the command: ./reconfigure_nagios.sh
Can you please suggest on how to remove

services from monitoring using command line

[tmcdonald]

I would not recommend using those scripts for this purpose unless you are 100% sure how they work - those are used internally by the application and as part of our troubleshooting.

I would strongly recommend using the API that was introduced in Nagios XI 5. Information on its usage is available in the web interface under the Help menu.

[Avinash91]

Thanks for the reply @ tmcdonald
I am using the Nagios Xi Version 5.2.9. I searched the help menu for the API but didn't find anything specific. Is the API available on this version?
Can you please share the API name or the usage info.

[tmcdonald]

The information should be in there. If you are in the Help section then in the top-left there should be a category called Backend API Docs which contains links to the various pages. If you are not seeing this, please send a screenshot of your Help page.

[Avinash91]

Thanks for your reply @tmcdonald.
I was able to find the API and commands to remove hosts and services from monitoring.

PFB the commands in case anyone else is looking for a similar command

To Remove host:
curl -XDELETE "http://10.10.83.94/nagiosxi/api/v1/conf ... lyconfig=1"

To Remove service:
curl -XDELETE "http://10.10.83.94/nagiosxi/api/v1/conf ... lyconfig=1"

[tmcdonald]

Looks like you got that sorted out. Are we good to close this thread?

[Avinash91]

Yup! we can close this thread