retention issue

[Steve Shipway]

>I don't think "current check attempt #" is retained
>
>Since soft states are not considered 'real' errors yet, when a 
>nagios restart occurs it must count up from the beginning again.

This is the way I understand it as well.  A few tests here seem to indicate
that this is the case in 1.2, at least.  The check attempts are used to
count the number of criticals *over a specified period* so you wouldn't want
these to be retained - the system doesn't know how long its been down, so it
starts the soft count from zero again.

Since you should have your max_checks and check_intervals set to something
sensible, it should only be a few minutes before things are back to normal.
If you are restarting nagios every hour or so, then you have a different
problem...

Steve



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