Problem Description
You manually make changes to the configuration files located in /usr/local/nagios/etc/ however you later find that after applying configuration in Core Configuration Manager (CCM) these changes are lost.
Nagios XI stores all of it's configurations in a backend database. Whenever you apply configuration in CCM, these configs are pushed down to the flat config files located in /usr/local/nagios/etc/. CCM is not aware of changes made to the flat config files.
If you have a need to update configuration files manually, perhaps pushing them from a third party application, you can use the location /usr/local/nagios/etc/static/ as this folder is not touched by CCM.
More information about this can be found here:
Documentation - Manual Config File Management
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http://support.nagios.com/forum/
Article ID: 161
Created On: Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:58 AM
Last Updated On: Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:03 AM
Authored by: tlea
Online URL: https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/nagios-xi-modifying-the-contents-of-usr-local-nagios-etc-161.html