Getting state retention to work

[Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano]

Probably a typo on your config, the directive is:
retain_status_information, and you are using retain_state_information.

HTH,
Marcel


On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 15:21 -0700, Rob Tanner wrote:
> Marc,
> 
> The retain_status_information and retain_nonstatus_information options
> are both set to 1 in the default templates at the top of the hosts.cfg
> and services.cfg files and I am specifying those default templates for
> almost all of the service and host entries.
> 
> Something else must still be missing.
> 
> -- Rob
> 
> 
> 
> Marc Powell said the following on 08/08/2007 02:31 PM: 
> >   
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rob Tanner
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:24 PM
> > > To: Nagios Users Mailinglist
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Getting state retention to work
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to get state retention to work, but it doesn't seem to like
> > > me very much.  I've set the options in nagios.cfg the way I think they
> > >     
> > 
> >   
> > > Here's what I think are the pertinent configuration options from
> > > nagios.cfg:
> > > 
> > > retain_state_information=1
> > > state_retention_file=/etc/nagios/state.dat
> > > retention_update_interval=1
> > > use_retained_program_state=1
> > >     
> > 
> > You also need to specify retention directives on per-host and
> > per-service basis --
> > 
> > retain_status_information: 	This directive is used to determine
> > whether or not status-related information about the host is retained
> > across program restarts. This is only useful if you have enabled state
> > retention using the retain_state_information directive. Value: 0 =
> > disable status information retention, 1 = enable status information
> > retention.
> > retain_nonstatus_information: 	This directive is used to determine
> > whether or not non-status information about the host is retained across
> > program restarts. This is only useful if you have enabled state
> > retention using the retain_state_information directive. Value: 0 =
> > disable non-status information retention, 1 = enable non-status
> > information retention.
> > 
> > --
> > Marc
> > 
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