Changing only the monitored_by column does work, I've done it many times -
no connectivity to that slave, so in order reload Opsview I would sleep the
hostgroup, move all slaves to my master and then reload.
But James does have a point there, and that's the right way of doing it.

Rafael


On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:41 PM, James Whittington <[email protected]
> wrote:

>  You might also have to set the uncommitted column to 1 for each host in
> question so Opsview will know the config has changed.
>
> I’m not sure if Opsview selectively build’s configs based on the
> uncommitted column but it must be there for a reason.
>
>
>
> Anytime I’ve done mass changes to hosts at the database level I’ve done it
> but can’t remember if it is required?
>
>
>
> If you are just moving all hosts to a monitoring server it should be pretty
> easy, otherwise you will have to match on a pattern or patterns as Rafael
> suggested..
>
>
>
> James Whittington
>
> VC3, Inc.
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Rafael Carneiro
> *Sent:* Monday, February 01, 2010 2:51 PM
> *To:* Opsview Users
> *Subject:* Re: [opsview-users] move hosts to slave
>
>
>
> If your hostnames have a pattern, this may help:
> UPDATE opsview.hosts SET monitored_by = 6 WHERE name LIKE 'PHX%'
> (don't forget to replace 6 with the id for your slave)
>
> This is not supported/recommended, so make sure that you either know what
> you're doing or backup your opsview DB before doing this.
>
> Rafael
>
>  On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Ryan Goldberg <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Just wondering if there's anything more I need to do aside from updating
> the "monitored_by" in the "hosts" table to the correct value in order to
> move them around.  I have to update about 1000 hosts, and doing it by hand,
> hmm, painful...
>
> Ryan
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