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Here is small section from the services.cfg that is in use. You can see that there are a couple of other mandatory fields that are missing from some definitions... define service { use network-service service_description AphidGwOldJobs hostgroups AphidGwOldJobs check_command check_aphidgw_old_jobs!x...

I've just joined a new employer and have been looking through their database and configs. It didn't make sense to me either. The 'zero' and 'NULL' values are the database entries. I ran a manual verify and it brought up no errors (there were over 900 'warnings' about other parts of the config though...

Could anyone please tell me the effect on the checks if either of the following conditions are true for a Service (NAGIOS CORE v3.5.1)?

1) The retry_interval is set to 0
2) The retry_interval is set NULL

Thanks in advance