notification_interval = 0 and retained state but still get notifications on restart

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Colm Ennis
> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:27 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] notification_interval = 0 and retained state
but
> still get notifications on restart
> 
> i use nagios 1.2.
> 
> i have set:
> 	notification_interval = 0
> for all hosts and services as we only want to be alerted once when a
> host/service goes down.
> 
> i have many devices/services and so autoprovision nagios config
updates
> nightly.
> 
> in order to load these config changes i restart nagios. to reduce the
> impact of this we retain state across restarts using:
> 	retain_state_information=1
> 	use_retained_program_state=1
> 
> however when nagios restarts it alerts for all hosts/services which
are
> down despite haveing notification_interval = 0.

I'm doing pretty much the same thing and I don't see this problem. It's
a little bit different in that all my checks are passive but that
shouldn't be a significant difference. Do you have the following
directives in your host/service definitions or templates --

retain_status_information       0       ; Retain status information
across program restarts
retain_nonstatus_information    1       ; Retain non-status information
across program restarts

In my case I don't retain_status_information, you will probably want to.
Another difference is that I have a really high notification_interval as
opposed to 0 but I don't expect that to be significant either --

notification_interval           10080

> 
> is there a way to do either of the following:
> a) load new config without restarting nagios

Send nagios a HUP signal.

--
Marc


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