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We do not directly align hosts to any of our services, all services are aligned with hostgroups. How do I delete a service via the REST API? The call REQUIRES host_name based upon the documentation and what I could find in the php back end.

I currently have automations in place that will push new and updated services across our infrastructure as required, however I need to now have the ability to remove out dated services faster.

I found some posts from 2011 that said it was in progress ... I really hope it's done?

Hi Nagios Team, any thoughts on this or should I open a ticket?

Use the endpoint config/service/<config_name>/<service_description> and you don't need to pass the hostname:

I'm assuming the service description in the URL doesn't need to be there twice? I'll be testing this shortly.

Hmm something is wrong, it still doesn't appear to be working for me. I've got this deployed to a host because of testing however it won't delete when the URL is being used. I'm using a complicated service_description as it matches reality. The configname and description are being looked up from the host that it's attempting to delete the item from, the only manipulation to the name / description was making it URL friendly.

Doing DELETE to:https://XIHOST:443/nagiosxi/api/v1/conf ... PIGOESHERE :: with:null
Post Processing Output: {
"error": "Could not remove services. Failed services may not exist.",
"services": [

],
"failed": [
"Linux_Baseline - SomethingSomethig - __ Goes Here"
]
}

-----

Service Definition
define service {
host_name localhost
service_description SomethingSomethig - __ Goes Here
use <TEMPLATE Name>
check_command check_tcp!5693!!!!!!!
register 1
}

Try sending it with localhost instead of Linux_Baseline as the hostname, i.e. https://XIHOST:443/nagiosxi/api/v1/conf ... ]localhost[/u]/SomethingSomethig%20-%20__%20Goes%20Here?apikey=APIGOESHERE

Linux_Baseline is the confg_name in the monitor so I'm confused by that recommendation? There is no hostname part of the service definition.

Hey @dh0125e, it looks like I tested something incorrectly and this will not work. Sorry for the bad info. We can file a feature request for this though.

According to forum posts I found this was in the pipeline in 2011. Just confirming this has NOT been resolved? If not yes this needs to be an RFE.

I labbed it up as well and it will not work without a host_name being passed as you original found, in the previous examples they are still passing a host_name but it's being pulled from the URL (config/service/localhost/PING). Whatever you set in bold there will be the host_name.

I've created a request for development to add this as a feature:

FR: XI - API - config/service DELETE - Add the ability to delete services by config_name and service description for services that are assigned via hostgroups

Please keep in mind that the decision to implement the enhancement is at the discretion of our development team.

Thank you! Sorry for any confusion!