Object dependency cleaning

[gomatze]

Hello Team,

I have been separating monitoring of production and integration to different monitoring servers (Nagiosxi)
Actually I'm deleting all integration configurations from nagiosxi-prd. I get stuck every few meters for unresolvable configurations.
Is it possible for futur releases to get a deleting wizard that helps to delete objects by resolving and unlinking dependencies?

Actually I pretty much fed up with the situation that I have to look into all service definitions for connections to hosts and Hostgroups that I need to delete from the productive system.

Since all configuration is an a db you could link the deletion of a host or hostgroup to a clean up process removing all definitions related to the deleted host.

[gsmith]

Hi,

Please try the following:
Configure -> CCM

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Select the blue box marked Hosts.
From the resulting list of hosts, hit the red "X" under the Actions column

Please let me know what the results are.

Thanks

[gomatze]

Hello gsmith,

I can delete the Host alright. But then when I try to restart Nagios (aka Apply configuration) it fails because the Host(s) that where deleted where still assigned to smth or a Service I run is still assigned to the deleted Host. The same goes for Hosrtgroups. I have deleted a bunch of Hostgroups for they where not longer used and could not apply the configuration for the hostgroups I deleted where still connected to some service. That means that the assignement between service and HG was untouched whilst I deleted the HG.
I think that when I delete a HG, there should be a subroutine that deletes all the configurations that are in the DB concerning the HG... for these are not longer valid.

I have by now removed what I wanted to delete bit by bit from each and every configuration by hand.
But still I think a solution like NagiosXI should be able to resolve delinquent relations in a DB to spare the customer that handish task.

[gsmith]

Hi,

Thanks for the product suggestion. I’ve submitted a feature request on your
behalf. Please keep in mind that the decision to implement the enhancement is at
the discretion of our development team.

Thanks

[gomatze]

Again today, trying to delete users from the integration system. I cannot delete Users because they are in Contact Groups... well then delete them from the groups. I have to delete 25 Users now and I will have to painstakingly search and remove all their etanglement in the configuration by hand! This is a thing that I expect a software solution to do for me...
Sorry for ranting, but I am a bit disappointed right now.

How about adding a deletion wizard to the ccm that helps to find, resolv and delete all the dependencies and entanglements. Or at least offers the user a list with checknboxes to decide what to delete or whatever...

Thank you. Please lock it...

[gsmith]

moderator - please lock

thanks