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I'd like to have a service object defined in Nagios XI, initially created with a text file imported into Nagios XI and be able to edit that configuration file and re-import it into Nagios XI. It looks like this might cause a duplicate service entry. How can I avoid this?

I'd also like to have a host object defined in Nagios XI, initially created with a text file containing a hostgroup or template directive and be able to edit that configuration file and re-import it into Nagios XI. Because multiple values for the hostgroup or template are allowed, how can I instruct Nagios XI to overwrite the previous values rather than append them?

Thanks!

Copy your config to "/usr/local/nagios/etc/import/" directory. Open it in a text editor. Make the changes you would like, save and exit. Run "reconfigure_nagios.sh".
This should override the old config. Let us know if you run into some issues.