Host/Service State Log Entries

[Prigge Scott]

I recently upgraded from 1.0b to 2.7. I noticed that immediately after
my daily log rotation, the current state of all hosts and services is
entered in the log file. As I have thousands of hosts/services, this
makes the log (in my case) unnecessarily large, and was hoping to find
an option to prevent those states from being logged. They seem to be
generated by the log rotation signal - they are not entered on a Nagios
restart, nor on full clean shutdown and restart.

Here is a sample of entries I am referring to:
[04-04-2007 00:00:00] CURRENT SERVICE STATE:
<hidden>;Ping;OK;HARD;1;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 51.00 ms
[04-04-2007 00:00:00] CURRENT SERVICE STATE:
<hidden>;Ping;OK;HARD;1;PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 212.99 ms
[04-04-2007 00:00:00] CURRENT HOST STATE: <hidden>;UP;HARD;1;PING OK-
Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 11.14 ms
[04-04-2007 00:00:00] CURRENT HOST STATE: <hidden>;UP;HARD;1;PING OK -
Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 28.26 ms

The documentation references the "log_initial_states" entry in the main
configuration file, which seems like it should control this option. But
as you can see by my config file below, it's disabled. Should I be
looking at a different option(s)?

Thanks.

cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/host_templates.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/commands.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contactgroups.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contacts.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/service_templates.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/services.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servicegroups.cfg
resource_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/resources.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/dependencies.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/escalations.cfg
log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log
temp_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.tmp
status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat
aggregate_status_updates=1
status_update_interval=30
nagios_user=nagios
nagios_group=nagios
enable_notifications=1
execute_service_checks=1
accept_passive_service_checks=0
enable_event_handlers=0
log_rotation_method=d
log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives
check_external_commands=1
command_check_interval=-1
command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
downtime_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/downtime.dat
comment_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/comment.dat
lock_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
retain_state_information=1
state_retention_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/retention.dat
retention_update_interval=15
use_retained_program_state=1
use_syslog=0
log_notifications=1
log_service_retries=1
log_host_retries=1
log_event_handlers=1
log_initial_states=0
log_external_commands=1
log_passive_checks=0
service_interleave_factor=s
service_reaper_frequency=10
interval_length=60
service_check_timeout=60
host_check_timeout=60
notification_timeout=60
date_format=us
illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*"|'<?,()=
illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$^&"|'<
object_cache_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache
execute_host_checks=1
service_inter_check_delay_method=s
use_retained_scheduling_info=0
accept_passive_host_checks=0
host_inter_check_delay_method=s
host_perfdata_file_mode=a
service_perfdata_file_mode=a
host_perfdata_file_processing_interval=0
service_perfdata_file_processing_interval=0

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