Nagios Host has 3 services even though .cfg specifies none

[JBashir]

Hi im having a strange issue where my nagios is monitoring 3 services on a host with no services specified in the cfg file.
I have tried deleting and recreating the .cfg file from scratch yet this issue persists no matter what i change. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

[scottwilkerson]

This can happen if you have the host assigned to a hostgroup AND you have that hostgroup attached to service definitions.

When you attach hostgroups to service definitions ALL of the hosts in the hostgroup get those services added

[JBashir]

This can happen if you have the host assigned to a hostgroup AND you have that hostgroup attached to service definitions.

When you attach hostgroups to service definitions ALL of the hosts in the hostgroup get those services added

I looked and im not seeing where my hostgroups are defined im reading that there should be a hostgroups.cfg in nagios/etc but mine doesnt appear to have that

[JBashir]

This can happen if you have the host assigned to a hostgroup AND you have that hostgroup attached to service definitions.

When you attach hostgroups to service definitions ALL of the hosts in the hostgroup get those services added

I looked and im not seeing where my hostgroups are defined im reading that there should be a hostgroups.cfg in nagios/etc but mine doesnt appear to have that

I did some more digging and saw that other hosts are in the same hostgroup but do not have any services

[scottwilkerson]

Can you grep your config directory for the service name to find all the locations it is defined and look at those service definitions?

[JBashir]

Can you grep your config directory for the service name to find all the locations it is defined and look at those service definitions?

ah thank you i did that and found it sitting in another cfg file (for another random host) that defined it and when i took it out of there my error disappeared thank you very much!

[scottwilkerson]

Can you grep your config directory for the service name to find all the locations it is defined and look at those service definitions?

ah thank you i did that and found it sitting in another cfg file (for another random host) that defined it and when i took it out of there my error disappeared thank you very much!

Great! Glad it is resolved

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