Another "Could not find any hostgroup "

[jmonn]

Hello,

I deleted services and hostgroups, and I cannot apply configuration anymore. Error is :
Error: Could not find any hostgroup matching '<GROUP<' (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/services/_multiple_hosts.cfg', starting on line 227)

I already tried to delete/write config files, verify is successful, but still no successful apply configuration. I do not understand where that reference to that deleted exists ?! I tried to grep the sql database nagiosql dump but I cannot find this group (I can however find other groups).

Can you please tell me where nagios XI stores its data, or how I can remove leftovers of this group ?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[gwesterman]

Hi @jmonn,

There are a few things you could try to potentially resolve this problem:
1) If possible, restore a previous snapshot from before the configuration failed and granularly delete services and hostgroups as needed.
2) Run the database repair script

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/usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/repair_databases.sh

3) Based on this similar post,
- Check if you have the hostgroup '<GROUP<' and remake it if not:

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grep -R -i '<GROUP<' /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts /usr/local/nagios/etc/services
grep -i '<GROUP<'/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg

- Try what worked for this user and verify there are no files in this directory:

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ll /usr/local/nagios/etc/import/

Please let us know if any of these work for you!

Thank you.

[jmonn]

Hello,

Thanks for your answer.

There are no reference to this group in /usr/local/nagios/etc at all.

Repair database was fine, no errors, but still I cannot apply cfg.

Creating the group in etc/hostgroups.cfg did the trick ! Configuration applied several times with success ! Thanks a lot !