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Hi,
i'm a nagios novice....

what about a massive change password for wmi-monitored services ? I've about 50 hosts (wmi monitored), but yesterday system administrators changed wmi user password, so now i've a lot of unmonitored services. i've tried to change the password using perl into conf/services files, but after 5 minutes a sync (i think to Mysql ?) rollbacked to old password. what's the right way to do this massive change ?

regards
Gianluca

You cannot manually change your configurations through the local copies in nagios/etc/*, they will be overwritten by mysql. Unfortunately at this time you will have to go in and manually change the passwords for your services through the CCM. This is where we recommend you use a template, or a set of services assigned to multiple hosts instead of new services for each host. In this way, it is easier to make large configuration changes.