Nagios - Retention period for logrotate

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Better to use log rotate and have the eldest log file mailed to an  
"archiving" mailbox, so you can recall them as you need.

Ciao,

Giorgio

Il giorno 05/giu/2010, alle ore 14.45, Marc Powell <lists at xodus.org>  
ha scritto:

>
> 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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