Restarts resetting soft critical states

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 10/29/2009 08:50 PM, Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote:
> You think you know an application and every once in a while you get a surprise...
>
> Both the reporting server and the distributed node share the same attributes for retention and soft states:
>
> soft_state_dependencies=0
> passive_host_checks_are_soft=1
> retain_state_information=1
> use_retained_program_state=1
> use_retained_scheduling_info=1
> retained_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_service_attribute_mask=0
> retained_process_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_process_service_attribute_mask=0
> retained_contact_host_attribute_mask=0
> retained_contact_service_attribute_mask=0
>
> While I would assume the restarts would disrupt Nagios a bit what with
> having to do start-time tasks again, I would not have expected that it
>  would "start over" with the status of some checks.
>
> What am I missing here?
>

It seems you haven't grasped how bitmasks work. When you set the mask to 0,
you essentially tell it to not let anything through. Set them to -1, or
leave them at the default values and you'll get the kind of state retention
you want.

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