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Nagios <strong>xi</strong> - Modifying The Contents Of /usr/local/nagios/etc

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Nagios xi - Modifying The Contents Of /usr/local/nagios/etc

Article Number: 161 | Rating: Unrated | Last Updated by tlea on Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:03 AM

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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.

Explanation

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