Log files

[Morris, Patrick]

Nagios will never take the log files into account to build status.dat.
The file is updated only when a check is run, and it saves only the
state of the last check it performed.

If it's really critical to you that the new system tell you it thinks
the box has been up for longer than that, you're probably going to have
to hand-edit the status.dat file, or write a script to convert your old
netsaint status file (or at least insert the dats into the right places
in the status.dat file). 

-----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: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:49 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Log files


Hi There,

I have made a clean installation made of nagios 2.2.
In my
/usr/local/nagios/var/
there are 2 directories, archives and rw.

I have copied the netsaint-*.log files over to
/usr/local/nagios/var/archives/ in the nagios-*.log format. When I run
/etc/init.d/nagios start the folowing files are created.

comments.dat
downtime.dat
nagios.lock
nagios.log
objects.cache
retention.dat
status.dat

>From the Web GUI, everything is in pending status and the duration
states something like 0h0m23s

Which variable am I missing which get nagios to take the nagios-*.log
files into consideration when creating status.dat?

It should report that these machines have been up for years.
I think the correct permissions have been applied to the log files
because they can be read by the event log tab using the GUI.

Thanks again,
Cormac

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