Sorry for the noise and thank you for the prompt. I was silly enough that I didn't restart the nagios service. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:52 PM, C. Bensend <<a href="mailto:benny@bennyvision.com">benny@bennyvision.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im"> > I then restart the web server, expecting to see a new host inf1 > > But the host count has not increased and I can't see any reference to the > host. I also can not see the new host group I defined. > > So obviously I am missing something fundamental. > > Thanks for any incite you care to share :) </div>"I then restart the web server"... If you mean that literally, as in you restarted Apache, that won't change anything for Nagios. Apache only provides the web server for the UI, it has nothing to do with Nagios. The Nagios daemon is the one you need to restart (or more accurately, you can send it a SIGHUP signal) to pick up on your configuration file changes. Now, if you *did* restart Nagios and your changes aren't appearing in the web interface, do the following: 1) Stop the Nagios daemon 2) Now, go stop the *other* Nagios daemon(s) It is a *very* common problem, especially when people are just starting out, to accidentally start more than one Nagios daemon. Changes are made, *one* of the Nagios daemons are restarted, while the other continues to happily run the old configuration (and show up in the web interface). Benny -- "You were doing well until everyone died." -- "God", Futurama ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev</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" target="_blank">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>