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Hi there,

Can someone please advise me on what the difference between "Skip" and "Null" options are when configuring a host or service?

I'm trying to configure the majority of settings through templates and want hosts or services who use these templates to "inherit" any settings not specifically defined in that host or service. To accomplish this, do I want hosts/services to be set for skip or null?

Thank you.

Skip means there will be no explicit declaration in the config. This allows for the particular host or service to inherit definitions from templates. Null means that it will be explicitly declared as null, which is a Nagios config keyword which means it will stop that value from inheriting from a template.

Great, thank you much.