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Figured it out, somehow, the first letter in the server name was uppercase in hosts.cfg but it was lower case in hostgroups.cfg. Changed camel case in all three files and we're good. I checked, double checked, and triple checked those names, but didn't see it. A co worker was looking at it and saw i...

I just inherited Nagios where I work a couple of weeks ago and so far I haven't really had any problems adding devices or editing config files, except for today. I'm trying to add a new server, I define the server in hosts.cfg, I add it to hostgroups.cfg, and I define the Ping service in services.cf...

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I copied this code from a post on the forum, hoping I could use this to see if I understand this macro. This line comes from the posters command.cfg file: command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H ~HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -s <passwd> -v FILEAGE -l $ARG1$ -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ Then in the services definition file...