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When I last used Nagios, I was manually editing files and hadn't heard of NagiosQL. I'm pretty sure I was just plain doing it wrong, but it worked and made sense to me. We have now another Nagios Core system, setup by someone else, configured similarly.

*servicegroup is basically unused.
*Hosts are defined as normal.
*Hostgroups are created as normal
*All services, however, are defined once and assigned to hostgroups.


Now I'm trying to setup a replacement system using Nagios XI, and when I used the autoconfig tools I end up with separate service entries for each host. Am I just looking at this wrong? I'm trying to manually configure this thing the way I'm used to, but it feels like I'm fighting the interface and working way too hard.

The wizards are for rapid deployment and granular control. If you want to deploy a complex config of templates/groups/dependencies, you may want to roll your own checks or edit those created by wizards to be a bit more robust and dynamic.