Reload question

[Andrew Laden]

On a similar note, it would be great if a refresh did not reset the
"freshness" timers/ I have a few once a day passive checks, and I use
freshness checking to make sure they run once a day. If you reload or
restart nagios, the freshness counters all go to zero. So if I restart
nagios at 3:00, and my 9:am check fails to run the next day, I wont get
notified about it until 3:00 pm, rather then at 9:00. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Wilson [mailto:chris at aidworld.org] 
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:54 AM
To: Subhendu Ghosh
Cc: Larry Naves; Nagios Users
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reload question

Hi all,

> > time. Is there a way to maintiain the scheduling queue throughout 
> > program restarts? If not does any body have a work around? I just 
> > don't want to ever see a scenario where nagios always gets reloaded 
> > before the 9999 host is checked for a long period of time during 
> > busy days where my coworkers are changing and reloading nagios.

> reload does cause the scheuling queue to be re-initialized.  Nagios 
> does not know if you have added or deleted services and hosts or just 
> changed definitions.

It seems to me that it would be a good idea for Nagios to schedule service
checks in order of oldest "last check" first, newest last. This would mean
that if host 9999 hadn't been checked on the last nagios run, it would be
checked quickly after a nagios restart.

Even better, when adding new host definitions, they would be checked
immediately, minimising the amount of time they spend in "pending"
state. Very useful when testing new host definitions :-)




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