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Hello,

I recently imported a bunch of hosts and services into a new installation of NagiosXI.

Later, I ran the manual configuration check and found duplicates services.

It looks like I have duplicate service definitions in the services.cfg and _multiple_hosts.cfg files.

What is the procedure for getting rid of duplicates?

Thanks for your time!

This is an example of what is causing the duplicates.

servicetemplates.cfg

define service {
name generic-aix-service-computational
service_description a_computational
use generic-aix-service
check_command check_nrpe!computational
retry_interval 10
notification_interval 120
first_notification_delay 10
notification_options w,c,r
register 0

}

services/services.cfg

define service {
host_name turco.doit.wisc.edu
use generic-aix-service-computational
contact_groups aix-alerts
register 1
}

[ead@winston services]$ cat turco.doit.wisc.edu.cfg



define service {
host_name turco.doit.wisc.edu
use generic-aix-service-computational
contact_groups aix-alerts
register 1
}

define service {
host_name turco.doit.wisc.edu
service_description a_disk_app1
use generic-aix-service-disk
check_command check_nrpe!disk_$HOSTNAME$.app1
contact_groups aix-crit-alerts,pesa-disk-apps
register 1
}

services.cfg doesn't sound like something that came out of the CCM on apply configuration, can you verify that if you go to Configure -> CCM -> Services in the config name drop-down you have something named "serivces"

If not, the file can be moved from the services directory and then the config verified, if would be common for there to be a _multiple_hosts.cfg after an import.

I do have many. My guess is that trying to import a number of files, created by the configuration prep process, without a good filter, caused some existing configuration files to get imported, leading to something recursive. The import file selection screen seems very dangerous.

Navigate to Configure -> Core Config Manager -> Hosts OR Services -> Find the related config - from here, you'll be able to delete and clear them out. Once finished, click 'Apply Config' to update your running configuration.

Bitflogger wrote:I do have many. My guess is that trying to import a number of files, created by the configuration prep process, without a good filter, caused some existing configuration files to get imported, leading to something recursive. The import file selection screen seems very dangerous.

If you go to Configure -> CCM -> Services in the config name drop-down you can only have 1 item in the drop-down named "services"

As @rkennedy pointed out you can choose to delete the items that are duplicates, it is possible all of them are, and they were also imported into their appropriate hosts configuration.

I was able to delete the duplicates. Thanks for your help!

Glad it is sorted!

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