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Removing a poller from your architecture

In order to ensure the stability and integrity of your monitoring environment, do not delete the central poller. The central poller plays a critical role in the overall operation of the Centreon platform. Removing it can lead to unintended disruptions in service. We are in the process of implementing safeguards to prevent the accidental deletion of the central poller.

To remove a poller from your Centreon architecture:

  1. If you haven't already done so, move the resources that the poller used to monitor to another poller:

    1. Go to Configuration > Hosts > Hosts.
    2. Use the Poller list to display only the resources monitored by the poller you want.
    3. Select all hosts using the check box in the left column header.
    4. Select More actions > Mass change and edit the Monitoring server field in the configuration form.
    5. Deploy the configuration for both pollers.

    The services monitored by this poller are moved to the other poller automatically.

  2. On the Configuration > Pollers > Pollers page, select the poller you want to remove, then click Delete. The poller disappears from the list of pollers.

  3. Deploy the configuration for the central server. The poller is removed for good. This cannot be undone.