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Got it. There was a second instance of Nagios running. I killed it and restarted nags services, checks running and reporting as expected.

Just found something interesting, while it is in the Critical state, the duration is the time from when I first added the device. When it goes to green, the duration shows the time since I switched it to use the negate command. Could this be database corruption?

I'll check the logs. This is a NagiosXI virtual machine, deployed from the ova and only added Cisco switches with the wizard. Then updated the service checks on a few interfaces for the negate.

In order to monitor unused ports for something being plugged into it I created the Negate version of the status check. This also replaces the critical icons in the GUI with the green OK. $USER1$/negate -s "$USER1$/check_ifoperstatus -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C $ARG1$ -k $ARG2$ $ARG3$ Every few minutes ...