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Good morning,

I'm brand new to Nagios and have a basic question: I'm having a bit of trouble changing the percentage of hard drive space that requires warnings. Right now I'm receiving warning at 90% full, but I want to change it a bit higher until I can compensate for the usage. I logged into my nagios box and opened the .cfg file that contains all the servers, found the proper service in the file and changed it from -w 90 to -w 94. However, i'm still receiving the update that's at 90. Is there another file or a service I need to update on the client side for this change to take effect?

Thanks.

Did you do a service nagios restart after changing the configuration?

I did not... is there any issues with running that in the middle of the day?

Nope. Assuming there are no errors in your configs it should only take a second or two to restart. If there are errors it will warn you, and you need to fix them before it will start.

There may be a tiny hiccup, but I do it multiple times and never have any noticeable issues/fallout from it. I'm also not in a mission critical production environment, I would say this one is kind of a 'best judgement' type situation, but I would say it's fine. You're already breaking the 'read only Friday' rule!

edit: too slow...

Thanks to both of you. I just restarted the service and an alert arrived confirming the drive space is now 'OK.'

Thanks again!

Great, we'll mark this as resolved and lock the topic then. Feel free to open another one if you have any more questions.