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I recently used the renaming tool on a groups of servers, and now the servers show in the gui as the old name and the new name. I looked in the following directories for the old host names:
/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts/
ls |grep hostname

/usr/local/nagios/etc/services/
ls |grep hostname

none of them appear, so I then went to the scripts directory to run the following:

./nagiosql_delete_host.php --host=hostname_of_server and get the following back
Unable find host in nagiosql database

./nagiosql_delete_service.php --config=hostname_of_server
Unable find services in nagiosql database.

Im not real sure how to proceede from here, but I also tried the FAQ doc
http://support.nagios.com/wiki/index.ph ... t_Hosts.29

and that didnt help either

Any additional trouble shooting steps to resolve this would be greatly appreciated

What is the version of Nagios XI that you are currently using? To clarify:

You have several hosts, for example:
You want to rename them, so you go to:
Then you go back to the GUI and see:
Is this correct?

I found the issue running grep in the host or services directory did not return the names but running up a level with grep -rl did work from a level up

Can you elaborate on this?

Looking for the renamed hosts / services in there directory doing an ls |grep hostname would not list the files in question, but If I ,oved up a level
/usr/local/nagios/etc/ and did the search from here grep -rl hostname I could find the results. I am not sure why.

Ahh, where were they residing?