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Hi Everybody

Im having trouble where i just assumed the role of nagios admin. I am using Core 3 and when im in the web GUI and go into Administration; anytime I click any of the options to edit such as hosts , groups, services , etc..... I am greeted with error "Nagios Configuration Directory '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects is newer than the internal Database."

I believe this happened because I had edited the commands.cfg config file on the server located in this objects folder. I originally got message "Nagios Configuration Directory '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/commands.cfg" is newer than the internal Database.
So I replaced that config file with the old one that I had saved and now I get the error Nagios Configuration Directory '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects is newer than the internal Database.

I was later told to just edit the commands from the WebGUI and not the config files on the CentOS box..... whoops.

Can anyone help me get this back to a state where I can edit the services, etc through the WebGUI and how can I do this?
Thanks in advance for any help!

Nagios core does not provide a config management ui system out of the box. Are you using nagiosql or nconf?

I believe the UI is called EZNag, version 1.1.2
Does this help?

EZnag is a third-party application, so there is only so much we can do to test it before it becomes pure guesswork. I see the latest version is 1.3.1, is there any reason you did not use that?

I havent made any updates yet because I had just assumed this new role..... and my Linux skills are not great.
I could update the EZNAG, it is still functioning which is why I didnt want to mess with it too much. I was just looking to adjust some of the current alerts.

Do you believe updating the EZNAG would also kind of "refresh" the internal database to sync up with the /usr/local/nagios/etc/object folder? As it seems the lack of sync between the two is triggering the error whenever I try to make changes in the eznag gui.
I am open to all suggestions but trying to take a conservative approach to ensure that I dont break the EZNAG interface all together.

I might add, when I go into "Administration" in the EZNAG gui where my options are, There is a "Rebuild" button..... does anyone know what this actually rebuilds?
Thank you

Unfortunately I'm not sure any of us are qualified to tell you yes or no when it comes to updating "EZNAG" as it is one of those third party utilities that we've never really dealt with. I cannot find any documentation on it as of yet.