Retention?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ugo Bellavance
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:22 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Retention?
> 
> Hi,
> 
>      I have 2 nagios servers, and one is showing an unwanted behavior.
> When I restart it, it kind of resets the state of the services.
> Therefore, if I disable a test using an external command, when I
reload
> or restart the nagios process, this 'disable' is ignored.
> 
> relevant nagios.cfg entries:
> 
> retain_state_information=1
> state_retention_file=/var/log/nagios/status.dat
> use_retained_program_state=1
> 
> Where should I start looking?

You need to set the values of retain_status_information and
retain_nonstatus_information in your service definitions.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service

--
Marc


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