[Nagios-users] retention issue

[Lori Adams]

I’m using nagios-2.04b.   Here’s what happened.  We had nagios running using nagios-1.2.  We wanted to try out nagios-2.04b.  I set up an entire new nagios instance on the same machine.  We called this nagios instance, nagios-2.  I’ve moved nagios-2 to be in the same location as nagios(-1), the webserver etc.  Everything is running, I can access the cgis, etc.  All values have been updated to reflect the move.   But somewhere along the line retention got extremely screwy.  Here were my values: retain_state_information=1 state_retention_file=<keeping path private>/nagios-2.04/var/retention.dat retention_update_interval=60 use_retained_program_state=1   I had moved nagios-2 to be nagios on 1/11.  Anytime I restart (/etc/init.d/nagios restart), the state values return to the values on the 11, with last check times set to 1/11.   I have updated the retention_update_interval to 2.  The retention.dat file is not updating while nagios is running.  It is also not updated when nagios shuts down, seen by both the code in the init script and the modification time of the retention file, even though the comments say it will:   So I decided to then remove the retention.dat file.  This worked great as the status no longer says 1/11 for the last check.  Except that no data is being retained.  So anytime I do a restart, all statuses go back to pending.   Does anyone have any thoughts?   -Lori