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Have there been any discussions or plans to implement dynamic device fingerprinting in Nagios XI to automatically adjust monitoring checks based on detected OS or service changes, without relying on static host templates? Additionally, how would such automation impact existing host dependencies, service escalations, and notification inheritance structures?

Hi Natchoughe,

You can certainly use OS-specific hostgroups to set up checks specific to an OS. As for "dynamic" we have some Ansible playbooks that would work as a basis for that, you could add a conditional to set up specific checks based on detected OS. https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/au ... sible/ncpa

Can you give me an example of a "service change" you are thinking about?

Aaron