Quirky issues - ditto (earn $100)

[jeff vier]

thats...curious.  You're sure you saved the config after changing it?

Change it, then do `grep use_retained_program_state nagios.cfg` and make
sure it's what you set it to before restarting.

On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 12:46, TIM MOORE wrote:
> Jeff,
>  
> I tried your steps, but nothing changed.  Although I changed the
> use_retained_program_state to 0, when I restarted Nagios it
> automatically changed it back to 1.  Any idea why?  It's possessed!
>  
> --------------------------------------
> Tim Moore
> DNS/Linux/Cisco Admin
> ODJFS
> 
> >>> jeff vier <jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com> 12/24/03 10:15AM >>>
> The way you fix this is this:
> 
> 1. edit nagios.cfg and change use_retained_program_state=1 to
> use_retained_program_state=0
> 2. restart nagios (use the web interface)
> 3. change use_retained_program_state back to '1'
> 4. restart nagios again.
> 
> (the other "fixit" post was close, but wrong :))
> 
> On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 08:13, Ric Moseley wrote:
> > I have this same issue with hosts and services that I have
> > notifications turned on in the config files for the host/services
> but
> > they show in the web interface that they are turned off.  They were
> > once off but if you turn them on after the fact the only way to turn
> > them back on is via the web interface.  I have 5000+ services
> > (distributed system) and I can do it through the web (it takes too
> > long)
> > 
> > I have $100 (payable via paypal) for anyone who can solve this
> problem
> > for me.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Ric. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >                                    
> >
> ______________________________________________________________________
> > 
> > From:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of TIM
> > MOORE
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 7:45 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Quirky issues?
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I have noticed a couple things about Nagios that don't seem to make
> > sense.  Perhaps I'm just missing something and someone could shed
> some
> > light.
> > 
> > 
> > When I look under 'Service Detail' I have many devices that have
> their
> > service notifications disabled by default.  I have
> > notifications_enabled set to 1 on all service definitions in the
> > services.cfg file.  The only way I can get them turned on is if I
> > drill down each one and click 'Enable notifications for this
> > service'.  This will take forever as I have 1100 devices in the
> > database.  My settings for service notifications is [w,u,c,r].  Why
> is
> > this?
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > Also, I had a device go down last night and no notification was
> sent. 
> > Nagios says it was down for over 30 min, but nothing was sent.  I
> have
> > service notification enabled for an oracle port but host
> notifications
> > turned off.  Is it possible that if the host goes down and you have
> > host notification turned off that it will take precedence over any
> > service notifications and not send them?  That is the only thing I
> can
> > figure.
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > --------------------------------------
> > Tim Moore
> > DNS/Linux/Cisco Admin
> > ODJFS
> > 
> > 
> 
> 



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