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Hey Guys,

Quick question, i have a Host that i by mistake had in the description the name lets say ABC but i deployed it and now i rename it to XYZ but the alerts coming in for the services are coming through as ABC still? =|

searched and searched cant find much

Are these alerts that occurred before the change was made and are just now coming in? Did you by chance change the Alias or Description instead?

I changed the "Alias" that i see within the hosts.cfg file.
These are alerts that were before and after and still showing the Wrong alias.

Can you send us the configuration file of your host/service that is displaying this issue, and also a snippet of the title of the email that still shows the old information? Please remove any private information.

define host{
host_name Hosts1
use generic-server-template
alias XYZ
address 192.168.0.34
_HOST_ID 1130
notifications_enabled 1
}

thats the new Config for that Hosts.cfg

snippet of the Service for that host

** RECOVERY alert - ABC / Temp: 1 OK ** <---- Should say XYZ

Have you checked your configurations to make sure you have no duplicates which may be sending this alert?:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... onfig.html

Yes sir

Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check

always check

I presume that you restarted the nagios service?
You could always stop the nagios service and then remove the retention.dat file: This will force all you checks to reschedule though.

Let me try the retention.dat removal.. yea restarted the service a couple of times.

Let us know if removing the retention.dat fixed your issue.