Nagios - Retention period for logrotate

[James Corteciano]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for your response. What can you suggest for this kind of scenario as
my boss requirement is to have the nagios logs remain within 6 months only?

At this moment, I just set "log_rotation_method=n" in nagios.cfg and I made
simple logrotation script as stated below.

/var/logrotation.d/nagios:

/var/log/nagios/*log {
daily
rotate 180
compress
dateext
missingok
notifempty
olddir /var/log/nagios/archives
sharedscripts
postrotate
        /sbin/service nagios reload > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || true
endscript
}

Would appreciate your help about this.

Thanks.

Regards,
James

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Marc Powell <lists at xodus.org> wrote:

>
> On Jun 5, 2010, at 3:57 AM, James Corteciano wrote:
>
> > Dear List,
> >
> > I am running Nagios version 3.2.0 and the archive logs are located in
> /var/log/nagios/archive which doing log rotation everyday. How can I
> configure nagios that the archive logs retention period is six (6) months?
>
> There isn't a configuration option for this. Nagios will keep the log files
> indefinitely for reporting (you can go back 2+ years through the web
> interface).
>
> You can cron a simple find -exec rm to do that but be aware that you won't
> have any reporting capability beyond what you keep.
>
> Also, because you specifically mention it, using logrotate will break
> reporting in nagios. The file naming convention must be exact for nagios to
> find the files.
>
> --
> Marc
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