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I need to modify the thresholds for bandwidth warnings. I have over 2000 of them to change but I need a quick way of doing it. Any suggestions?

Unfortunately you cannot use the bulk modification tool to change thresholds at this time, you can however, re-run the wizard you used to create these checks against the same host to change the thresholds.

You have a couple options:

1) within the XI interface, copy one bandwidth service. Remove all unnessecary data aside from the thresholds also untick the register box, so that it becomes a template. Then remove the thresholds from all other bandwidth checks that you wish to alter, and add this clone, as a template to mass apply your new thresholds.

2) Copy the services you wish to modify into the import directory. Modify them as needed, as flat files with any tool you wish, and follow the rest of the import configuration document. http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... nto_XI.pdf

Someone else may chime in with another option, but these are the two I would suggest.

sreinhardt wrote:You have a couple options:

1) within the XI interface, copy one bandwidth service. Remove all unnessecary data aside from the thresholds also untick the register box, so that it becomes a template. Then remove the thresholds from all other bandwidth checks that you wish to alter, and add this clone, as a template to mass apply your new thresholds.

2) Copy the services you wish to modify into the import directory. Modify them as needed, as flat files with any tool you wish, and follow the rest of the import configuration document. http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... nto_XI.pdf

Someone else may chime in with another option, but these are the two I would suggest.

Has there been an update to this in 2014 XI? We also have hundreds if not thousands of bandwidth thresholds that we need to change. We are looking for any solution that could make this process easier.

Right now it looks like sreinhardt's second solution might be easiest. We do not have a tool presently in XI to make mass modifications to specific command arguments.