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Hi,
How can I bulk change service templates? (MySQL commands are good too)

Thanks.

The bulk modification tool only supports host and service objects. So an sql command may be the only way to bulk modify a template. What are you looking to alter?

My configuration has about 1000 services which were created without a relevant template.
I'd like to start working with templates for those services.

I've already bulk-modified before using MySQL and have no problem running some queries.

Thanks.

What are you looking to alter?

We need to know what specific changes you wish to make to the database as we can not support certain alterations due to the high possibility your database could be ruined. Are you looking to make changes to notification options for your templates, or something along those lines? I can only think of a few things you would wish to change as templates by design are singular configurations used to push that configuration to multiple hosts/services so identical templates would defeat the purpose in most cases.

You've completely misunderstood me, but I guess it's my fault
I don't wish to change any templates, I'd just like to apply templates over a bulk of services.
Is this possible?

Did you utilize wizards at all for the creation of these services? If so, there would be a template assigned to those services automatically. If you want to add templates to existing services that currently don't utilize them, you'll have to manually add them at the moment. It's important to note that config directives in the service definitions will override any templates, but you can use the Bulk Modification tool to clear many of the values in a list of services. This will allow those services to inherit from the template.

See the following doc on more detailed info about object inheritance.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... tance.html

You could also look at Service->hostgroup assignments if you have a lot of common services across your many hosts. This would allow you to manage one service definition for an entire group of hosts. You can also apply a single service definition to a list of hosts.

So I can't run a MySQL command to apply templates to services?

Thanks

We don't recommend making changes directly in the database. Any issues on your Nagios XI server, caused by running MySQL commands this way would make your XI instance NOT supportable.

I know, that's why I keep backups
Please share the command for applying templates over a service.

Thanks.

Again, this is most definitely a "Do this at your own risk!" scenario.

I'd suggest clearing all existing template relationships first for any affect services. These are starter queries, so you can decide how to best implement them.


foreach service: // <sort_order> should be 1 if you're only using 1 template on a service