Host and/or Service availability report

[Justin Craig]

perfect, since I didn't know how to to specify initial assumed state "OK", I
changed log_initial_states to 1 and now I'm graphing availability again.
thanks....

On 7/31/06, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> Only if nagios can determine what the initial state was. Normally,
> nagios does not log the first check of a host or service, only when it
> changes state. As such, when you run reporting now, nagios is probably
> showing the states as undetermined because it doesn't have anything in
> the logs to use to determine initial state (unless your selected host or
> service has changed state since restart). That's why you need to specify
> an initial assumed state and what that state should be (OK).
> Alternately, enabling the 'log_initial_states' option in nagios.cfg and
> restarting will log the first check for everything and therefore provide
> you with that initial state from that time forward. This is the same
> behavior you would have seen when you first installed nagios.
>
> --
> Marc
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin Craig [mailto:jrcraig.email at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 8:26 AM
> > To: Marc Powell
> > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host and/or Service availability report
> >
> > Okay that's fine, but if I go to a host a view availability, shouldn't
> the
> > time from when nagios started to current time be refected here?
> >
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > On 7/31/06, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
> >
> >       I indicated that the Axe approach would removed all history. --
> >
> >       "Axe: stop nagios; remove nagios.log ; start nagios; remove
> > archives/*.
> >              *******That will remove all history for all hosts and
> >       services*******"
> >
> >       You'll likely need to use Assumed States for your availability
> > reports
> >       until the initial state data gets re-populated.
> >
> >       --
> >       Marc
> >
> >       > -----Original Message-----
> >       > From: Justin Craig [mailto:jrcraig.email at gmail.com]
> >       > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 7:29 AM
> >       > To: Marc Powell
> >       > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host and/or Service availability
> > report
> >       >
> >       > Thanks Marc, I cleared the logs and al lthe old data was
> purged.
> > I
> >       > started Nagios again and now it's not reporting availablity on
> any
> >       hosts?
> >       >
> >       > Justin
> >       >
> >       >
> >       > On 7/28/06, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
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- Justin
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