Okay, you'll need to go through a few steps to establish what exactly is being run. Grab some paper to note settings as you go. Start by going to the Core Config Manager (under "Configure"), under Services in the left sidebar, find the service in question, and click the crossed tools "Configure" icon. On the "Common Settings" tab, note what it says for "Command view", the values of the eight ARG variables, and anything listed under "Additional templates". Now, in the left sidebar again, click "Templates -> Service templates", and find any that were listed on the previous step. If any of the ARG variables that were blank on the first page are filled in here, write down the value on the template. Repeat this step if any of the templates in turn have templates listed on their definitions. Similarly, if the Check command and Command view were blank, fill them in from the template.
Now, starting with what you had for "Command view", replace $USER1$ with /usr/local/nagios/libexec , and replace $HOSTADDRESS$ with the IP address of the host this service is associated with.
As an example, I have a host called "Server Room", with an IP address of 192.168.5.254, and am running a simple ping check against it. For "Check command" and "Command view" they're blank, $ARG5$ = -p 5, and for templates it has "xiwizard_websensor_ping_service". The template for xiwizard_websensor_ping_service has a "Check command" of "check_xi_service_ping" and a "Command view" of '$USER1$/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$,$ARG2$ -c $ARG3$,$ARG4$ $ARG5$', with $ARG1$ = 3000.0, $ARG2$ = 80%, $ARG3$ = 5000.0, $ARG4$ = 100%, $ARG5$ = -p 8, and a template of "xiwizard_generic_service". The "xiwizard_generic_service" template has a check command of "check_xi_service_none" and a command view of '$USER1$/check_dummy 0 "Nothing to monitor"', with blank args and no additional template. Nothing gets filled in from this template because all of the values it defines are already defined in a higher-priority setting.
Here, the first step is to look at '$USER1$/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$,$ARG2$ -c $ARG3$,$ARG4$ $ARG5$'.
Step two fills in $ARG5$ from the service definition, and we get '$USER1$/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w $ARG1$,$ARG2$ -c $ARG3$,$ARG4$ -p 5'.
Step three gets args 1-4 from the xiwizard_websensor_ping_service template, giving '$USER1$/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5'. The $ARG5$ is left alone because it was already set.
Step four does nothing - the last template doesn't have any new info.
Step five is to fill in the macros, so you get '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp -H 192.168.5.254 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5'. That's your full check command.
Now, log into your Nagios XI server as root, either on a direct terminal or through SSH. Enclose your command in single quotes like I've been doing here, put su -c before it and nagios after it, and hit enter. It should look something like this:
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[root@demo ~]# su -c '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_icmp -H 192.168.5.254 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5' nagios
OK - 192.168.5.254: rta 50.903ms, lost 0%|rta=50.903ms;3000.000;5000.000;0; pl=0%;80;100;;
[root@demo ~]#
Obviously that will be filled in with different details based on the check you're trying to run, but hopefully that demonstrates the progression of how to build the line.
