It is possible you have two units with the same names and different I.P's and you removed the modem basing on name? <div>Ismail On 9/4/06, <a href="mailto:rajat@subisu.net.np"> rajat@subisu.net.np</a> <<a href="mailto:rajat@subisu.net.np">rajat@subisu.net.np</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi, well i am having this problem in nagios. i am working in an ISP which uses cable modems and i am using nagios to monitor some of our clients to see how often they go offline. i had added a user in nagios few months back and 2 days ago i had decided to remove him from nagios monitoring. but even after removing the user from hostgroups.cfg hosts.cfg and services.cfg file in nagios and restarting/reloading it, i am still getting the HOST UP and HOST DOWN reply from nagios every time the cable modem is switched on and off. can anyone help me in this ??? thanks, Rajat ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo <a href="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642">http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users </a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div> -- Ismail M. Settenda NOC/Backbone Supervisor ANM/AFAM Ltd P.o.Box 1215 Arusha. Tel (Off): 255-27-2504220