Nagios - Retention period for logrotate

[Marc Powell]

On Jun 5, 2010, at 3:57 AM, James Corteciano wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> I am running Nagios version 3.2.0 and the archive logs are located in /var/log/nagios/archive which doing log rotation everyday. How can I configure nagios that the archive logs retention period is six (6) months?

There isn't a configuration option for this. Nagios will keep the log files indefinitely for reporting (you can go back 2+ years through the web interface).

You can cron a simple find -exec rm to do that but be aware that you won't have any reporting capability beyond what you keep.

Also, because you specifically mention it, using logrotate will break reporting in nagios. The file naming convention must be exact for nagios to find the files.

--
Marc


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