External commands and nagios.log

[Keller, Mark D]

Hello,

We have a distributed Nagios environment that is working fine.

On the frontend I am getting about 400MB of logs a day. That makes any web cgi's that need to read the logs horribly slow. I have noticed that about half of the log messages are for external commands. Is there any reason to keep the external commands in the log files? Does some of the history or reports rely on them?

Then the second question is, how do I get them to stop logging to the file? I see there is a log_external_commands option in the nagios.cfg, but setting that to 0 doesn't seem to actually stop the log entry from going to the nagios.log.

I am using Nagios 3.0.6.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Mark

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