how to reset uptime values

[Sean Perry]

Marc Powell wrote:

> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sean Perry [mailto:sean.perry at intransa.com]
>>Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:23 AM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] how to reset uptime values
>>
>>I have been trying to reset my uptime values to zero for the new year.
>>However nothing I try seems to work.  My setup is a standard nagios
> 
> set
> 
>>to store all data in SQL (mysql to be exact).
>>
>>When I stop nagios the host and service status table is empty.  Ok, so
>>maybe it reads the data from $NAGIOS/var/*.out.  So I stopped nagios
> 
> and
> 
>>moved the files.  When nagios started back up the old data was still
>>there.
>>
>>What am I missing?
> 
> 
> The availability CGI's use the archived log files so you would need to
> delete all those. As far as the numbers stored in the database, you
> should be able to stop nagios, delete your state_retention_file and
> restart. It's typically named status.sav but you may have changed it.
> I'm not sure exactly what the .out files you mention are unless you've
> changed the default file names in nagios.cfg.
> 

That's what I thought too.  But that doesn't work.  With nagios stopped 
and the SQL table empty I have emptied my $NAGIOS/var directory.  Start 
nagios back up and voila, the data has risen from the grave.




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