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I agree it isn't difficult but it is definitely tedious. That's why I was looking for a way to automate this. I read up on the automation documentation, but I don't think it applies to a particular service.

Also since I was tied to making the edits in GUI, I was looking for a way to do exact match searches, but I couldn't get that to work, so ended up having to click through the GUI.

I think this is ok for smaller implementations, but in our case, if we needed to remove or edit a particular service, going through the GUI can be time consuming.

I had worked on some code a while back that would let me delete a host with attached services by first deleting those services then deleting the host. This worked in only the simplest of cases - if there were parent/child relationships, groups, dependencies, or basically anything else that would prohibit deletion it broke things pretty hardcore. This is one of the big problems with the relationship chain, it gets really hard to know for sure that something is safe to delete because of the nearly-recursive amount of work that needs to be done to verify all of this. I'm sure it can be done, but it'll need a ton of testing and would likely not be here any time soon.

Thanks for the input. I understand the complexity that's involved here, so for now I guess the best way is to do a search and manually uncheck/check the services to remove, then the host if applicable.

One item: Does the search support "exact match"? or could be a feature down the road?

Currently, this functionality doesn't exist in XI but I believe it could be easily added in one of our future releases. I posted an internal feature request (TASK ID 7233). Thanks!

CFT6Server, did you have any other questions or may we lock this thread?

Please lock this thread. Thanks.