Updating hostgroups via api

[kmackay]

Hi:

I'm attempting to update a hostgroup (adding 'simon.blah.com' to the 'Elasticsearch-servers' hostgroup via the api using the following:
curl -XPUT "http://watcher/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/h ... lyconfig=1"

simon.blah.com is an actual host in our config and when I execute the above command, it says that it's successful but when I check in the interface, it still returns the same list of servers as before the 'update'?

Am I missing a parameter or is this even possible via the api?

Thanks!

[scottwilkerson]

You probably want to add the hostgroup to the host config.

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curl -XPUT "http://watcher/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/host/simon.blah.com?apikey=QclTD3pVVHWiN8Gt4EZYfjKhC5gfJgOPL9Ilrogm5sXREEkXuDVMcF44ZDjJanOU&pretty=1&hostgroups=Elasticsearch-servers&applyconfig=1"

Alternatively, you can add it to the hostgroup like you were doing but you would update the members field not the host_name field, key point being this will replace everything that is currently in the list, so you would need to pass all the existing members plus the new one

e.g.

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curl -XPUT "http://watcher/nagiosxi/api/v1/config/hostgroup/Elasticsearch-servers?apikey=QclTD3pVVHWiN8Gt4EZYfjKhC5gfJgOPL9Ilrogm5sXREEkXuDVMcF44ZDjJanOU&pretty=1&members=originalMember,originalMember2,originalMember3,simon.blah.com&applyconfig=1"