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Every time I get a service notification, I also have started receiving a Host UP notification. The only change made before this started was deleting a host that to my knowledge, had no dependencies. No errors were generated after deletion.

Also, some of the service notifications received have "$" in some of the fields that are supposed to be defined by macros. Other service notifcations are correct, so I'm really not sure why this has started happening either.

Any suggestions for things to check? I am at a loss.

If you are receiving notifications for a host being up then one (or more) of your templates or definitions likely contains the 'r' flag in the host/service_notification_options field.

If your macros are returning just "$" that means they contain no value, so either the macro is no longer getting a value set or there's a typo in the macro name.

As for why this would happen after removing a host? I have no idea . I'm not even sure what part of your config I should ask for you to post considering both of these problems are fairly broad and could be in a number of places... maybe the service template, contact template, service definition and notification definition of an affected service?