Host/Service State Log Entries

[Prigge Scott]

It's not clear to me where you got your description from. This
description is taken from the Main Configuration File Options page, and
its pretty clear to me from that it is the option to control the
behavior I'm referring to:
*********************************
Initial States Logging Option

Format: 	log_initial_states=<0/1>
Example: 	log_initial_states=1

This variable determines whether or not Nagios will force all initial
host and service states to be logged, even if they result in an OK
state. Initial service and host states are normally only logged when
there is a problem on the first check. Enabling this option is useful if
you are using an application that scans the log file to determine
long-term state statistics for services and hosts.

    * 0 = Don't log initial states (default)
    * 1 = Log initial states 
*********************************

It just doesn't seem to have any effect on my system. So the question
I'm struggling with is whether this is a purposeful behavior as Marc
describes? Is it a bug? Or is it some misconfiguration on my part? If
the log_initial_states=0 option is set on your system and you are not
seeing those log entries, then there is likely a misconfiguration on my
system. But even if that's the case, it doesn't correlate with Marc's
assertation that the inclusion of these entries is intentional and
irreversable. If Marc's assertation is incorrect, then there must be
some way to control the behavior - but what are the correct options? It
obviously isn't entirely controlled by this option, otherwise I could
control it.

> Well, the "log_initial_states" option has this description:
> "If you want Nagios to log all initial host and service 
> states to the main log file (the first time the service or 
> host is checked) you can enable this option"
> It then goes on to recommend against setting this option 
> unless you are using an external application that does 
> long-term state statistics reporting.
> 
> What I have observed its effect to be is to write out a 
> snapshot of the state of each host and service to the log 
> file on restart of nagios. 
> This would be useful in some situations, I suppose. I leave 
> it off, for the same reasons you mention.
>     Thomas

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