scheduled downtime Retention problem

[Cedric Jeanneret]

Me gain,

Of course, *after* having searched for a while, and then sent the mail, I fumble on the official nagios bug:
http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=338

Will check on debian tracker if they can integrate this patch…

Cheers,

C.

On Wed, 29 May 2013 15:23:18 +0200
Cedric Jeanneret <nagios_ml at tengu.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm having some problem with the retention status with this setup:
> nagios-3.4.1-3
> Debian Wheezy
> 
> Problem:
> I schedule some downtime for either a host or a service, but it's not here after a reload (or a restart) of the nagios3 service
> 
> Steps:
> - schedule some downtime (for one month, if this helps)
> - wait for the icon to appear in the web interface
> - restart (or reload) nagios3 service
> - scheduled downtime is gone
> 
> Some more information:
> I did check the retention.dat file, it contains, at the end, this block which seems completely correct:
> servicedowntime {
> host_name=HOSTNAME
> service_description=SERVICE
> downtime_id=1
> entry_time=1369832618
> start_time=1369832609
> end_time=1372518209
> triggered_by=0
> fixed=1
> duration=2685600
> is_in_effect=1
> author=USER
> comment=MY COMMENT
> }
> 
> There's also a servicecomment containing some Nagios comment as well - THIS block is shown and taken in account.
> I tried to see whether nagios encounter some error while reading its retention file, but nothing shown up…
> 
> servicecomment {
> host_name=HOSTNAME
> service_description=SERVICE
> entry_type=2
> comment_id=4
> source=0
> persistent=0
> entry_time=1369833542
> expires=0
> expire_time=0
> author=(Nagios Process)
> comment_data=This service has been scheduled for fixed downtime from 2013-05-29 15:03:29 to 2013-06-29 17:03:29.  Notifications for the service will not be sent out during that time period.
> }
> 
> 
> Retention configuration:
> 
> grep retain nagios.cfg  | grep -v '#'
> retain_state_information=1
> use_retained_program_state=1
> use_retained_scheduling_info=1
> retained_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_service_attribute_mask=0
> retained_process_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_process_service_attribute_mask=0
> retained_contact_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_contact_service_attribute_mask=0
> 
> Another information: the Acknowledge works as expected…
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> C.
> 
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