Host/Service State Log Entries

[Prigge Scott]

Ahh, I understand now. Thanks for the clarification and for your input.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Stocking [mailto:tstocking at groundworkopensource.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:04 PM
> To: Prigge Scott
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host/Service State Log Entries
> 
> Scott,
> Marc is right - this is neither a bug, nor a 
> misconfiguration. It is purposeful behavior. It was added to 
> Nagios by the developer as a fix for another issue with the 
> reports. You can't control it without modification to the 
> source code, unless both you and I and Marc are all missing something.
> I also see these log entries at log rotation, regardless of 
> my log_initial_states setting. If I enable this option I 
> *also* see these at, or just after, restart, and it balloons 
> my log files in large systems, hence I refrain from setting 
> it. I tolerate the entries at log rotation, though I admit 
> that it would be nice to be able to turn these off :) Thomas
> 
> Prigge Scott wrote:
> > 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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