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guys what does this warning mean, and what impact would it have on doing an apply config, or what impact does this have on monitoring?

The first thing to ask yourself is "Do I have service checks set up directly for the host in the host's config AND is that host also inheriting checks from a hostgroup or service group with the same checks configured?" - this can cause the duplicate definition errors, in which case I believe the apply config would fail, that's all.

In the Ui go to: Configure > Core Config Manager > Service...find the service in question and in the 'Actions' column on the right, click in the blue 'i" icon. This will show you the relationship info, i.e. the other hosts / services it is tied to.

thats a good answer man. My apply cfg doesn't fail. but the interesting thing is that I have 24 lines with that error, however the verification report states:

Those are pre-verification verifications.

If you have multiple services with the same service description being applied to a host (whether applied from a hostgroup or directly on a host), it will only show one service but I generally tend to try to resolve the duplicates.

99.9% of the time it's because you setup the service initially directly attached to the host, then you attach a different service with the same name to a hostgroup that that host resides in and it will give you this warning.

ok thanks for the answer sir! my hunt for zippy apply cfg goes on. you can lock this.