diff --git a/doc/Extensions/Oxidized.md b/doc/Extensions/Oxidized.md
index aa8ca51136..7f7d2ebf57 100644
--- a/doc/Extensions/Oxidized.md
+++ b/doc/Extensions/Oxidized.md
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ You will need to configure default credentials for your devices, LibreNMS doesn'
             X-Auth-Token: '01582bf94c03104ecb7953dsadsadwed'
 ```
 
+LibreNMS is able to reload the Oxidized list of nodes, each time a device is added to LibreNMS.
+To do so, add the following to your config.php.
+
+```php
+$config['oxidized']['reload_nodes'] = TRUE;
+
+```
+
 ### Using Groups
 
 To return a group to Oxidized you can do this by matching a regex for either hostname or location. The order is hostname is matched first, if nothing is found then location is attempted.
diff --git a/includes/defaults.inc.php b/includes/defaults.inc.php
index c71b394427..eeb9b5da32 100644
--- a/includes/defaults.inc.php
+++ b/includes/defaults.inc.php
@@ -471,8 +471,9 @@ $config['rancid_ignorecomments'] = 0;
 // $config['collectd_dir']                 = '/var/lib/collectd/rrd';
 // $config['smokeping']['dir']             = "/var/lib/smokeping/";
 $config['smokeping']['pings']             = 20;
-// $config['oxidized']['enabled']         = FALSE;//Set to TRUE
+$config['oxidized']['enabled']         = FALSE;//Set to TRUE
 // $config['oxidized']['url']             = 'http://127.0.0.1:8888';// Set the Oxidized rest URL
+$config['oxidized']['reload_nodes'] = FALSE;//Set to TRUE, check documentation
 // NFSen RRD dir.
 $config['nfsen_enable'] = 0;
 // $config['nfsen_split_char']   = "_";
diff --git a/includes/functions.php b/includes/functions.php
index bb128bd13a..c9d842b9a3 100644
--- a/includes/functions.php
+++ b/includes/functions.php
@@ -580,6 +580,7 @@ function createHost($host, $community = NULL, $snmpver, $port = 161, $transport
         if (host_exists($host) === false) {
             $device_id = dbInsert($device, 'devices');
             if ($device_id) {
+                oxidized_reload_nodes();
                 return($device_id);
             }
             else {
@@ -1302,3 +1303,20 @@ function warn_innodb_buffer($innodb_buffer) {
     $output .= 'Config proposal: "innodb_buffer_pool_size = '.pow(2,ceil(log(($innodb_buffer['used'] / 1024 / 1024),2))).'M"'.PHP_EOL;
     return $output;
 }
+
+function oxidized_reload_nodes() {
+
+    global $config;
+
+    if ($config['oxidized']['enabled'] === TRUE && $config['oxidized']['reload_nodes'] === TRUE && isset($config['oxidized']['url'])) {
+        $oxidized_reload_url = $config['oxidized']['url'] . '/reload';
+        $ch = curl_init($oxidized_reload_url);
+
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
+        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
+        curl_exec($ch);
+        curl_close($ch);
+    }
+}