Hi list, I saw a patch a few months ago that was supposed to allow hostgroup-defined services to be overriden by host-defined services. In my case, I have a sql server that I don't want to follow my generic memory check, but instead want to tweak its arguments a bit. I have shown below both service definitions, one utilizing hostgroup and the other utilizing host. When I tried to use this, the parser reported an error for duplicate object however I was under the impression the patch (referenced here: <a href="http://markmail.org/download.xqy?id=ms6rzljthml7ejlt&number=1">http://markmail.org/download.xqy?id=ms6rzljthml7ejlt&number=1</a> from nagios-devel) would make this setup work. NOTE, the patch was not accepted as it was provided here, however there is very similar functionality as of 3.2.0 in xodtemplate.c. Any hints on how to make the host-service override the hostgroup-service would be much appreciated. I was shown by a user on #nagios of freenode that I could simply ! the hostname in question in the hostgroup-defined service, however with how my config files are setup it would not be intuitive for anyone coming after me. Hostgroup-defined service: define service{ use generic-service hostgroups windows-servers-dom1 service_description mem@dom1 name mem@dom1 check_command check_wsc_dom1!memory!10%,5%,10%,5% } host-defined service: define service{ use generic-service host nin-tgisqlcl-01 service_description mem@dom1 name mem@dom1 check_command check_wsc_dom1!memory!3%,2%,3%,2% } Thanks in advance, Pete