Apply config should be more lenient

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Apply config should be more lenient

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I wish there were a better place for Nagios XI suggestions. :-)

#1: I really believe that hosts should be able to be disabled without eliminating/disabling the services that run on them.

#2: I really believe that services without hosts should not be a deal breaker for apply config
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Re: Apply config should be more lenient

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Put hosts in hostgroups and apply the hostgroups to services. Hosts can then be disabled w/o CCM getting upset even if there are no active hosts applied to a service.
I jst verified by creating a host, hostgroup with that host, and a service with the hostgroup, then deactivated the host and applied w/o error.
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See, I'm not sure I agree.

Since "active/inactive" is a database thing, the CCM could "cascade" the inactive host to deactivate all services that are assigned to it so that when Core is restarted, those things are ignored.


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eloyd wrote:the CCM could "cascade"
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While this is a workaround, it does not change my mind that the underlying functionality that I described should still exist.
gormank wrote:Put hosts in hostgroups and apply the hostgroups to services. Hosts can then be disabled w/o CCM getting upset even if there are no active hosts applied to a service.
I jst verified by creating a host, hostgroup with that host, and a service with the hostgroup, then deactivated the host and applied w/o error.
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I have submitted this feature request to the developers. It will be up to them if and when this ever exists.
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Thanks. I'll go bug them now. :-)

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