I don't seem to have that issue. When I add hosts, no restart is required. It many not be true for newer versions but I recall the only thing needing a restart was an edit to the (hobbit|xymon)server.cfg. If you are deleting the tmp files (*.chk) I can see the maint alerts change from blue to red.
Others, wiser and running more current versions will chime in, but waht happens if you just add a new host to the host.cfg file and wait some 7 minutes without restarting? Does it show up?
Good Luck,
Tim
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Raymond, David [user-b68bb8c94f8b@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 8:40 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon 4.3.5 restart for adding host
Hi,
On every change I do in hosts.cfg, I need to restart xymon service.
This cause me lot of work, cause all my test (blue) came back in red… and send alerts.
Someone have same as me ?
David Raymond