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Hi all.

Is there a way to mass edit hosts? Specifically, is there a way to change a setting (like parent host) to several hundred devices at once?

Background: I use the auto-discovery feature to add several hundred devices and accidentally gave them the wrong parent host. I managed to rectify this by change the parent hosts data but that seems really dangerous...and I'm sure there would be other things I would use an "en masse" feature on.

The simplest way would be to make an appropriate update in the nagiosql database (probably in tbl_lnkHostdependencyToHost_H table)

Michalux

Actually I think the table needed here is tbl_lnkHostToHost. However, doing it this way is a "do so at your own risk" type of procedure ; )

I agree with mguthrie. I've been working with MySQL/PGSQL for several years but I'm not really up for directly modifying the guts of Nagios. Is this a feature that can be requested?

There is currently no way to do this, but you can suggest it as a feature request on our bug tracker.