Configuration changes not taking effect after restart of Nagios

[davor grgicevic]

Hi  Deobrah

try  following:
stop  nagios
erase objects.cache, status.dat and  retention.dat
start  nagios

Best,





On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Deborah Martin <Deborah.Martin at kognitio.com
> wrote:

>  Hi, ****
>
> ** **
>
> I’m using Nagios 3.4.4 on SLES 11 SP2. This has been running for around
> two months. ****
>
> ** **
>
> Recently I needed to change the configuration for a service escalation to
> remove a contact group that would get sms alerts. I restarted Nagios and
> everything ran fine.****
>
> ** **
>
> However, it’s been reported that recently, the team that shouldn’t be
> getting the sms alerts are still getting them. When I look at the
> Configuration for service escalations, I can now see two entries for the
> same escalation, one which is the new , with the sms contact group removed
> and one with the old config which has the sms contact group included. But
> when I look at the actual .cfg file for the service escalation definition,
> there is not mention of the sms group anymore. I’ve checked, and re-checked
> and still I can’t see why this has happened. ****
>
> ** **
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> I’ve even stopped Nagios for a short while and restarted it from scratch
> and this still doesn’t make any difference. ****
>
> ** **
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> Has anyone else see any oddities like this where config changes don’t seem
> to take effect after a restart of Nagios ? ****
>
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> Is there a “cache” file I can remove from the configuration forcing nagios
> to recreate it from scratch so that reads the rest of the .cfg files
> properly ? ****
>
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> Any pointers / ideas on where I go from here would be really appreciated.
> ****
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> Regards,****
>
> Deborah ****
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