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I am glad your issue was resolved! As for the "resetting the attempts counter", you could click on the service under "Service Status" page, go to the "Advanced" tab, and submit an "OK" passive check. Hope this helps.

So final question, from a service dependency it looks like you can make the service dependent on a host & a service (first test of this didn't work but may have misconfigured something).

Or can you put a host dependency on your service's host from 1 Service Dependency rule while making the service dependent on the dependent host???

I'm kinda sorta doing that here:

define servicedependency {
dependent_host_name CVT3247532
dependent_service_description 25000 CVT_app
host_name 11.248.20.73
service_description Ping
inherits_parent 1
execution_failure_criteria w,u,c,p,
dependency_period 24x7

}

So I guess my question is will only the service CVT app shut down (Because it's a service dependency rule) when I kill the 11.248.20.73? Or can I turn off the CVT3247532 host check with this one rule as well?

The goal would be to turn off host alerting when a store switch is down for our price checkers.

The goal would be to turn off host alerting when a store switch is down for our price checkers.

You can accomplish this much easier by setting up correct parent/child relationships. Set the store switch as a "parent", and set the host as a "child". When the switch is down, the host won't be down, but "unreachable". You can chose not to receive alerts about "unreachable" states. This way you won't be flooded with alerts, but you will be still receiving notifications when the host is actually down.

To learn more about determining status and reachability of network hosts, please review our Nagios Core documentation here:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagi ... ility.html