On Mar 2, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Rahul Nabar wrote:

> If I try "View Alert History for this Service" I seem to get an error
> "No history information was found for this this service in the current
> log file"
>
> The file that it reports "File: /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log" is
> indeed correctly present. What else could be wrong? Does "Alert
> History" have to be explicitly enabled in some way?

No.

> This is a simple "ping" service so it does have performance data.

Alert history isn't performance data. An 'alert' is logged when the  
service changes state (i.e. OK->CRITICAL for example). Your service  
has not changed state in the current log file.

Nagios does not log performance data to nagios.log.

--
Marc


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