Hi All! I am confused about Nagios' behavior when it is restarted. One of the basic questions is what classifies as "state information" and what is "non-state information". When we acknowledge a service problem, I would expect this acknowledgement to be a "state information." However, when we restart Nagios, these acknowledgement disappear. The configuration is as follows:
nagios.cfg: retention_update_interval=60 state_retention_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/retention.dat retain_state_information=1 use_retained_program_state=1 use_retained_scheduling_info=1 All templates use: retain_status_information 1 and I do not explicitely turn it of for any service. Based on this configuration my assumption is that Nagios should retain status information across Nagios restarts. Since the acknowledgements are not retained, this implies that acknowledgements are not state information. Is this correct? Do I simply need to activate retain_nonstatus_information? Another issue is the initial_state directive. We have several passive services which we set initial_state o I initially set these services manually to OK. However, when I restart Nagios these services go back to "pending", which is not a happy thing. Is there anything I can do? Regards, Jim Mohr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
