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Is there a way to set in the service template a default read only community string that can be used in the snmp checks? I see I can add it to the host templates but for a large site setting it for all hosts would be time consuming.

Sure, you can create a service template the exact same way you would with a host, just think of it as creating one service, with a few options that will be inherited on your services you assign it to:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... tance.html

slansing,

Thanks for the reply.