Have I found a bug?

[Andreas Ericsson]

matthias.flittner at nethinks.com wrote:
> Every time I reload nagios, it put a vertical line into the trend graphic. 
> I think that is bad. The line should only put into the graph if nagios is 
> restartet...
> 

It happens that way because nagios logs the current state of things when 
it's restarted or reloaded or when the logfile is rotated. This is to 
make sure that nagios doesn't have to backtrack into older archives to 
find out what state the host / service was in at the starting time of 
the period the user requested the report for.

> Please fix it.
> 

It's easy to do, but as I don't have a problem with it myself (I rather 
like the current behaviour) you'd better send a patch if you want it 
fixed. To get you started, the proper way to go about doing it is in the 
log parsing routines where you need to add a check to make it not insert 
a new state into the timing calculation structs if the new state is the 
same as the old.

Have fun hacking, but please don't expect anyone else to do so for you 
until you start paying them.

Cheers

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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