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Hi,
I have a question, I'm not sure I will be able to explain it in simple words, but I will try my best .
I have experience with both Nagios Core & Nagios XI. I used to with Nagios web interface and simple CFG file editing, and I also worked with GroundWork. I'm not sure if you ever heard or know GroundWorks but there is one feature that I was not able to find in Nagios XI. From the GroundWork I was able to create profiles for monitoring.

For example:
I create a host with:
check 1
check 2
check 3
check 4
check 5
check 6

Now From mentioned above, I save it as (name for example) IIS Server Profile.
Now everytime there is a new new host for monitoring with the same checks, I just add the host name to this profile and all the checks will be automatically added to this new host.

In Nagios XI I didn't really found it, but I used "Bulk Host Cloning and Import Monitoring Wizard" which is almost the same idea, but requires few more steps.
So my question is (in case if you understood everything until now) if there is such option to create monitoring profiles or the "Bulk Host Cloning and Import Monitoring Wizard" is the way to do that.

Thanks in advance

One way of doing this would be to create a "template" with the required check information for this host, you can also do this for your services, all you would need to do is apply that template over your new host/service to inherit it's rules/definitions/information. That sounds similar to what you are looking at.

slansing wrote:One way of doing this would be to create a "template" with the required check information for this host, you can also do this for your services, all you would need to do is apply that template over your new host/service to inherit it's rules/definitions/information. That sounds similar to what you are looking at.

No,
The scenario you described is how to use a service/host template. What I'm talking is to create a set of checks which will be saved as template and then you just apply to it hosts whenever you want.
In your scenario I will apply a single service to several hosts, in my scenario it several services to a specific host.
Anyways, from looking over the Internet I didn't find a way to do it. I guess that Host cloning is the best way in Nagios XI.

The "Bulk Host Cloning and Import Monitoring Wizard" is probably the way to go. You can also try adding these hosts/services from the CLI. For more info, see this document:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... gement.pdf