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Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:17 pm**

Hi,

After having Nagios Core installed , up and running, I have created a very first host definition file and have it placed /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/server1.cfg.

Then I modify the /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg file by adding these lines:

# Definitions for monitoring the server1 (Linux) host
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/server1.cfg

This works fine, however, I need to create about 100 hosts so I don't want to create 100 host definition files and add 100 lines into the nagios.cfg file.

What would be the most efficient way for me to do this?

I think I can point to a directory or something like that, but not sure how to do this.

thanks,
ik.

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:18 pm**

ikekim wrote:I think I can point to a directory or something like that, but not sure how to do this.

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# You can also tell Nagios to process all config files (with a .cfg
# extension) in a particular directory by using the cfg_dir
# directive as shown below:

cfg_dir=/path/to/some/cfg/files

Posted: **Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:35 pm**

Thanks @mcapra!

OP, let us know if you have any more questions.

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