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Good afternoon all

I removed a contact who had left the business recently and also makde some other changes - the apply configuration worked fine as it usually does.

Today I have attempted to remove a host which has gone, but now the apply configuration errors as follows:

Error - contact ''removed_contact_name'' is not defined anywhere

Error - could not add contact ''removed_contact_name'' to host (config file 'usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts/servername.cfg' starting on line 16)

clearly I need to edit this but not being a linux person, can someone tell me the easiest way to rectify my situation please? Nagios just runs in the background for us and we dont have what we would call a proper nagiosadmin to go to

thanks in advance
Andy

Sorry - just to clarify - I have investigated the said servername.cfg via the GUI to see if any contact details somehow needed changing but couldn't see anything obvious!

Hi Andy,

Happy to help out. So it's trying to add a contact to the host that doesn't exist. Just double-check to make sure you have the correct contact settings for these hosts. Then run through the following steps in Configure > CCM > Tools > Config File Management

1. Delete Files
2. Write Files
3. Verify Files ( if you see any errors follow the message to correct and repeat steps 1-3 until it passes)
4. Restart Nagios Core

If you're not able to correct it, then run the following command, PM the nagiosql.sql file and I can test it out on my end. Thanks, Benjamin