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To support,

I have couple nagios servers, and I have all the configuration setup under the "static" directory for easier to manage through automation. I was wondering if we can use the Nagios API to add/remove services under the static directory?

youtube tutorial from Nagios XI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbSmaZ0PRE

Thank you very much for checking.

No, you cannot use the REST API to add/remove hosts/services that reside in the static directory. These configs are not present in the database. That's why they are handled manually. If you want to add/remove hosts/services in the static, you would need to add/modify the configs (e.g. via a script), and restart nagios.