status.sav to rentention.dat

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Cormac O' Cianain
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:32 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] status.sav to rentention.dat
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> Has anyone had to convert status.sav (Netsaint) to
> retention.dat(Nagios) ?
> I have just installed Nagios 2.2 and converted the log
> and config files over but I haven't been able to find
> an easy way to convert status.sav to retention.dat
> (These are in very different formats).
> 
> This needs to be done as I have 4 years of historical
> data that I'd like to keep. I'm sure it can be done
> manually but it could take a while. Does anyone know
> of a easier way to do this?

There's really no need from my experience. status.sav and retention.dat
just contain current status information and they'll be re-populated on
the first check of each service based on your current configs and check
results. status.sav is used by the CGI's to display current status and
retention.dat is used by nagios to reload current state on restart.

All historical information is in nagios/netsaint.log and the archives.
The only thing that I can think of that might be interesting to port
over from retention.dat might be acknowledgement status. I handled that
by looking at the comments file for ACKNOWLEDGMENT and greping out the
appropriate parts of the line to submit an acknowledgement external
command.

--
Marc


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