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Your service definition looks malformed. When passing arguments to a check_command in your service definition, you delimit them with the ! character.

So if you have a check command like this:
And you wanted to pass in http://xxxx.com as the $ARG1$ value, then based on the structure of your check_url_status command definition, you could do something like this:
Notice how I have omitted the -U because it is already included in the check_url_status command definition. In the context of a service definition's check_command directive, you are referencing the command definition itself; Not the script.

If your command definition instead looked like this:
Then it would be totally valid to include the -U in your service's check_command directive like so:

of course youre right. here is what i did


define command{
command_name check_url_status
command_line $USER1$/check_url_status.pl $ARG1$
}

define service{
use websites
host_name xxxxx
service_description website
servicegroups websites
check_command check_url_status! -U http://xxxx.com
}

this resolved it