diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7e33389..34fae23 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 
 Nagios is a powerful open source software solution for monitoring your IT environments.
 
-`confdroid_nagios` is a Puppet module allowing to fully automate the setup & configuration  of the Nagios server, as well as actively adding client hosts and services to the monitoring environment through defines and `PuppetDB`.
+`confdroid_nagios` is a Puppet module allowing to fully automate the setup & configuration of the Nagios server, as well as actively adding client hosts and services to the monitoring environment through defines and `PuppetDB`.
 
 ## WARNING
 
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ Nagios is a powerful open source software solution for monitoring your IT enviro
 ## Features
 
 - if FQDN equals the specified `ng_nagios_server`, nagios server with all required specs is installed, else only nagios client packages and the target specs
-- if `ng_include_nrpe`is set to `true`, the confdroid_nrpe module is automatically applied on clients ([confdroid_nrpe](https://sourcecode.confdroid.com/confdroid/confdroid_nrpe) must be in the catalogue then )
+- an additional directory /etc/nagios/conf.d is created to place the custom checks etc. without being overwritten by updates. 
+- if `ng_include_nrpe`is set to `true`, the confdroid_nrpe module is automatically applied on clients ([confdroid_nrpe](https://sourcecode.confdroid.com/confdroid/confdroid_nrpe) must be in the catalogue then)
+
 
 ### configuring user access
 ToDo
diff --git a/manifests/main/dirs.pp b/manifests/main/dirs.pp
index 2401415..e624cc2 100644
--- a/manifests/main/dirs.pp
+++ b/manifests/main/dirs.pp
@@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ class confdroid_nagios::main::dirs (
       seluser  => system_u,
     }
 
+    # /etc/nagios/conf.d
+    file { $ng_conf_d_dir:
+      ensure   => directory,
+      path     => $ng_conf_d_dir,
+      owner    => 'root',
+      group    => 'nagios',
+      mode     => '0750',
+      selrange => s0,
+      selrole  => object_r,
+      seltype  => nagios_etc_t,
+      seluser  => system_u,
+    }
   # /usr/lib64/nagios dir required for plugins
 #  file { $ng_lib_dir:
 #    ensure   => directory,
@@ -74,7 +86,7 @@ class confdroid_nagios::main::dirs (
 #    seluser  => system_u,
 #  }
 
-#  if $fqdn == $ng_nagios_server {
+
     # /etc/nagios/conf.d
 #    file { $ng_conf_d_dir:
 #      ensure   => directory,
@@ -191,6 +203,5 @@ class confdroid_nagios::main::dirs (
 #      seltype  => nagios_spool_t,
 #      seluser  => system_u,
 #    }
-#  }
   }
 }