Re: [Nagios-db-devel] Retain State

[jl <jla...@em...>]

I guess I was more looking at services being marked as pending upon a 
nagios restart.  I have a bunch of services that only report back 
hourly (raid status and freespace as examples) that get marked as 
pending after a nagios restart.  We end up having to restart nagios a 
fair amount right now because of changes to our network and 'loose' the 
last state of those services until they report again.  Is there a way 
around this?

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious.

jl


On Mar 24, 2005, at 11:43 AM, Ben wrote:

> Well, a couple things.
>
> First, nagios-db does retain the last state. (In fact, there's really 
> no
> way not to retain state.) However, it doesn't use it for hosts and 
> doesn't
> trust it for services. This was intentional. If nagios has to restart,
> there's no way to know what happened when it was down.
>
> Second, there is a big difference between pending and unknown, at least
> when it comes to services.
>
> So.... unlike the nagios CGIs, the nagios-db UI does the most accurate
> thing it can: it a service had been up before restart, nagios-db marks 
> the
> host as "up and pending". It still sort counts as up, but it's 
> untrusted,
> because nagios may well have missed it going down.
>
> If this doesn't work for you, why not?
>
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, jl wrote:
>
>> I've noticed that when nagios resetarts, nagios-db does not retain the
>> current state.  I have set nagios to retain state, and verified that 
>> it
>> does.  This creates some holes of 'unknown' for services that don't
>> report very often.  Is there a way to make nagios-db retain state or 
>> is
>> that a limitation of nagios?
>>
>> jl
>>
>>
>>
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