Problems with nagios remembering things

[Martin Hebrank]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:26:40PM -0600, Mikel Bauer wrote:
   [snip for space]
> Nagios seems to (unless I'm missing an obvious step) "cache" the 
> previous setup of an existing service, and not let this be changed via 
> the config files.
> 
> I have the same problem with notifications.  If I originally have 
> notifications enabled for a host, does this happily for a time, then I 
> go and disable notifications in the service and hosts files, it still 
> thinks that notifications are enabled, until I force an external command 
> for each specific host/service, or wipe the status/history of nagios.
> 
> Maybe I'm smokin something, but that's what's happening.

Nope. It stores certain things. If you check the docs, the descriptions
for certain options have an asterisk (*) next to them that indicates that
nagios stores them. Look into the retain_nonstatus_information option. 

Silly me, I just ran into the same problem on my setup so this message is
also a thanks to Volker for correcting me. 

** Martin

-- 
Martin Hebrank. Systems Administrator/Postmaster
APK.net, Cleveland, OH.


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