Change obsess_over_service in status retention file

[Owen Berry]

I'm administering multiple servers in a distributed/failover
environment - running Nagios v1.2. Recently I noticed that one of the
servers was performing active checks of some services where it should
have been receiving passive checks from the Nagios server local to the
service. With some debugging and hair pulling I discovered that some
of the services have obsess_over_service=0 in the status.sav file on
the "local" Nagios server. These services are configured for
obsession, which is confirmed by config.cgi, but they aren't being
obsessed over because of the state retention values.

Firstly, what is the best way to correct this? As far as I can tell
there is no way to fix this through the web interface. My next guess
would be to shutdown Nagios, modify the relevant values in status.sav,
and restart. Any other ideas? I have a LOT of services I will need to
check, so I would probably need to figure out some way to script it if
I need to go this way. Otherwise, is there some way to just reset the
value to whatever was configured? I don't want to lose all the status
information, so deleting everything would not be a good option.

Secondly, how does it get into this state? There are services for the
same host that were added at the same time, yet have differing values
in the state retention. I would prefer to avoid this in the future -
our servers are busy enough without each server having to perform it's
own checks.

Thanks for any  input,
Owen

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