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I have a host that is no longer present on the network, have deleted the services and host from ccm but it's still there as a big critical alert.

I just looked in /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts/ and sure enough, the <hostname>.cfg file is there.

I have searched around the forum and tried a few things, killall nagios etc..

Can I just delete it or will that break everything?

Cheers
M

That's exactly what you need to do. See the following: http://support.nagios.com/wiki/index.ph ... t_Hosts.29

OK I did that, removed it from /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts, it was not in /usr/local/nagios/etc/services.

Wrote and verified the config files in CCM and then restarted nagios.

It's still there, triggering a critical alert.

find / -name <stickyhostname> reveals that there is still a file in /usr/local/nagios/share/perfdata/<stickyhostname>

Do i delete that as well?

edit: OK nevermind, I think I have got ride of it now.

You can can close this now, Thanks!.

For future reference, the perfdata directory just holds temporary files used for graphing performance data from services.

Closing.