Nagios Updated a host but old host is still pinged

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jim B
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:31 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Updated a host but old host is still
pinged
> 
> I have a nagios item which is a switch that I have changed the IP on
in
> hosts.cfg but the old host keeps getting pinged insted.
> 
> Is hosts.cfg the correct file to edit to update an item when the IP
has
> changed.

If that's the file that it's defined in, then yes. Did you restart
Nagios? Did it really restart? You may (probably) have multiple nagios
processes running at the same time. Stop nagios, kill any processes that
remain and restart.

> 
> Also Nagios is installed on Red Hat and I would like to migrate it to
> Debian, I have tried to copy the required files but the versions in
Nagios
> are too different to accept the nagios.cfg file, what would be the
best
> way to migrate a Nagios install from Red Hat to Debian?

Nagios.cfg has been pretty consistent for almost all pre 1.0->1.x
versions. I believe the only major additions have been the illegal_*
entries --

illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*"|'<>?,()
illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$^&"|'<>

What specific problem are you encountering? If you're trying to move
from 1.x to 2.x, you'll probably need to do a line-by-line between the
two versions of nagios.cfg. I don't think that even that much has
changed between 1.x and 2.x to make that a difficult prospect.


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