nagios loses the state of some monitors

[Marc Powell]

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On Feb 13, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Uwe Bartels wrote:

> Hi Marc,
>
> thanks for your answer.
> retain_status_information is set per default to 1 in the template  
> generic-service.
> setting this parameter explicitely in the service definition of the  
> monitor which looses its state did not help either.
>
> - I set the parameter 'retain_status_information 1'
> - reloaded
> - and run my config procedure
> -> state is again pending.

Well, I've been doing the same thing as you under netsaint/nagios  
every hour for almost 8 years now and haven't experienced this. I'd be  
surprised if a new issue appeared with nagios-3 so I'm leaning more  
toward some config issue. Does retain_status_information appear in the  
service definition in objects.cache? Are you sure that the hostname/ 
service_description are exactly the same between reloads? How about  
retain_nonstatus_information? Try enabling that. I'm not 100% certain  
which each controls but I use both.

Also, just because it commonly causes strangeness, be sure you don't  
have multiple nagios daemons running at the same time.

--
Marc


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