It sounds like you want to setup a dependency then - https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ncies.html.
You would make execution of the checks dependent on another check like check_tcp to make sure that the port is up first.
Why duplicate false alert on with nagios agents.
Re: Why duplicate false alert on with nagios agents.
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