Not logging new hosts/services

[Marc Powell]

Alex Farrer <mailto:afarrer at africonnect.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created a couple of new hostgroups with 2 hosts in each and defined
> them all OK in the various config files. I restarted Nagios (having
> first checked the config files with the -v command, all appeared to
> be fine). Now when I open the interface Nagios shows that it is
> monitoring all of these new hosts & services fine and there are no
> problems. However, when I try to run a trends/availability report for
> any of the hosts/services there is no data there and I get a 100%
> Indeterminate reading, of which 100% is due to 'insufficient data'.  
> 
> So the problem seems to be somewhere in the logging process with any
> new hosts/services that get added to the config files. All existing
> host/services are being monitored/logged as per normal. Also I can
> see these new ones in the status.sav and status.log files.   
> 
> I've tried killing and then restarting the Nagios process serveral
> times to force Nagios to start logging them, but with no joy. 
> 
> Anyone got any idea what the problem is or/and how I can 'kick-start'
> the logging process to recognise these new hosts and log them? 


Nagios will not log anything for a host or service until it changes
state. If your hosts have always been up, you should select Assume
Initial States = yes and First Assumed State = UP/OK when running your
reports. You can have Nagios log initial states on restart with the
log_initial_states=1 option in nagios.cfg and that will help but only if
your report period contains a restart and/or your backtracked archives
includes a log archive that contains a restart.

--
Marc


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