Fwd: Question about NDOUtils DB population

Gene Horodecki geneh at shaw.ca
Tue Jun 7 18:28:54 CEST 2011


Ok yes my retain_state_information=1, and use_retained_program_state=1 
so I am ok there.

I will set config_output_options=3 and restart the environment.

How long can I expect to run before all the configuration data gets 
populated?


On 06/07/2011 3:20 AM, Michael Friedrich wrote:
> Gene Horodecki wrote:
>> Ok great information, thank you.  data_processing_options is -1 
>> (process all) which looks correct.  Also the data broker is correct 
>> for Nagios 2.
>>
>> My config_output_options are set to 2 however.  From what I have 
>> read, this would explain why the rest of my database is not getting 
>> populated.  I will assume I have too much load to run at 1 or 3 for 
>> long.  What is the correct and lowest impact process for updating the 
>> table now?  Set the option to 3, reload ndo2db, then set back to 2 
>> and reload again?
>
> retention data must be enabled in nagios.cfg whilst doing a core 
> restart will dump that data into ndomod. just reloading ndo2db won't 
> affect that, it's the core which is required. if you happen to need 
> original configs, you can use the combined '3' for 
> config_output_options in order to dump both (only difference will be 
> the config_type column then, and those being used will be marked as 
> is_active in the objects table.
>
> read up here for further information on the table structure ... 
> http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/ch12.html
>
>>
>> Will this work, or any other better ways of doing it?  Thanks.
>>
>> On 6/6/2011 11:03 AM, Michael Friedrich wrote:
>>> Gene Horodecki wrote:
>>>> Sorry if this is a repost. I jumped the gun and posted before I was a
>>>>
>>>> member of the list and didn't see my emali go through.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> I have a production environment that runs Nagios + NDOUtils and I got
>>>> called in because the environment got neglected for a year.  When I 
>>>> look
>>>> at the NDOUtils database, it looks like someone tried to rebuild it
>>>> because it is populating with statehistory but the hosts, hostgroups,
>>>> and services tables are blank.
>>> make sure config_output_options are set in ndomod.cfg
>>>
>>> furthermore, check data_process_options for config data to be dumped
>>> (and respective nagios.cfg event broker options too)
>>>
>>>> I'd like to try to fill these tables in but I don't really understand
>>>> when NDOUtils populates these tables.  I found the original dbconfig
>>>> script but it just creates the schema with no data.  Somehow NDOUtils
>>>> still knows what the ids are for the services because the keys are 
>>>> there
>>>> and I might be able to work backwards and populate everything but
>>>> obviously it would be easier to just understand how ndoutils builds 
>>>> the
>>>> data and reproduce it.
>>> the objects table keeps active objects alive, even if the config is not
>>> yet dumped.
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the help!
>>>>
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