retention issue

[Mike Holloway]

Works here too.  Looks like this needs to be punted to the dev guys  
for a bug fix.

-mike


On Jan 19, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Lori Adams wrote:

> I haven’t figured out what broke.  But I have come up with a fix  
> for retaining during restarts.
>
>
>
> I edited the init script, and added
>
> stop)
>
> +                cp $NagiosStatusFile $NagiosRetentionFile
>
>
>
> Now the status.dat file is copied to the retention file.
>
>
>
> -Lori
>
>
>
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users- 
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Lori Adams
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:57 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] retention issue
>
>
>
> I’m using nagios-2.04b.
>
>
>
> Here’s what happened.  We had nagios running using nagios-1.2.  We  
> wanted to try out nagios-2.04b.  I set up an entire new nagios  
> instance on the same machine.  We called this nagios instance,  
> nagios-2.  I’ve moved nagios-2 to be in the same location as nagios 
> (-1), the webserver etc.  Everything is running, I can access the  
> cgis, etc.  All values have been updated to reflect the move.
>
>
>
> But somewhere along the line retention got extremely screwy.  Here  
> were my values:
>
> retain_state_information=1
>
> state_retention_file=<keeping path private>/nagios-2.04/var/ 
> retention.dat
>
> retention_update_interval=60
>
> use_retained_program_state=1
>
>
>
> I had moved nagios-2 to be nagios on 1/11.  Anytime I restart (/etc/ 
> init.d/nagios restart), the state values return to the values on  
> the 11, with last check times set to 1/11.
>
>
>
> I have updated the retention_update_interval to 2.  The  
> retention.dat file is not updating while nagios is running.  It is  
> also not updated when nagios shuts down, seen by both the code in  
> the init script and the modification time of the retention file,  
> even though the comments say it will:
>
>
>
> So I decided to then remove the retention.dat file.  This worked  
> great as the status no longer says 1/11 for the last check.  Except  
> that no data is being retained.  So anytime I do a restart, all  
> statuses go back to pending.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>
>
>
> -Lori
>
>


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