NDO: Host/Services is_active flag buggy ?

[Ton Voon]

On 13 Mar 2007, at 17:19, Sebastian Schubert wrote:

> on behalf of lars michelsen, who can't post to this mailinglist *g*
>> Hi,
>> i'm a developer of NagVis, in the actual version we have a problem  
>> with reading host/service states from NDO. We filter the objects  
>> with the flag is_active. Actualy we are not sure what the flag is  
>> used for, we gues it's to hold objects for historical informations  
>> in the DB.
>> I just had a look at NDO-1.4b2 sources (dbhandlers.c).
>>
>> It looks like all objects in NDO are first set to is_active=0  
>> (function: ndo2db_set_object_as_inactive()).
>>
>> Then the up to date objects will be updated/created (Function:  
>> ndo2db_handle_<objekt>definition). In this process all objects  
>> expect services and hosts run the function  
>> ndo2db_set_object_as_active() to set the objects to is_active=1.
>>
>> Maybe it's a bug? Maybe not. I just had a short look at the sources.
>>
>> If this is no bug, could anyone please explain what the flag  
>> is_active stands for and in which cases it's used?

We discovered this bug a few months ago: http://altinity.blogs.com/ 
dotorg/2007/01/helping_ndoutil.html.

Ethan has applied to CVS, but not generated a new release.

Ton

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