<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=us-ascii" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Marc, The retain_status_information and retain_nonstatus_information options are both set to 1 in the default templates at the top of the hosts.cfg and services.cfg files and I am specifying those default templates for almost all of the service and host entries. Something else must still be missing. -- Rob Marc Powell said the following on 08/08/2007 02:31 PM: <blockquote cite="midA7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA08276DD1@misex01.ena.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">-----Original Message----- From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:nagios-users">mailto:nagios-users</a>- <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>] On Behalf Of Rob Tanner Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:24 PM To: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: [Nagios-users] Getting state retention to work Hi, I'm trying to get state retention to work, but it doesn't seem to like me very much. I've set the options in nagios.cfg the way I think they </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Here's what I think are the pertinent configuration options from nagios.cfg: retain_state_information=1 state_retention_file=/etc/nagios/state.dat retention_update_interval=1 use_retained_program_state=1 </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> You also need to specify retention directives on per-host and per-service basis -- retain_status_information: This directive is used to determine whether or not status-related information about the host is retained across program restarts. This is only useful if you have enabled state retention using the retain_state_information directive. Value: 0 = disable status information retention, 1 = enable status information retention. retain_nonstatus_information: This directive is used to determine whether or not non-status information about the host is retained across program restarts. This is only useful if you have enabled state retention using the retain_state_information directive. Value: 0 = disable non-status information retention, 1 = enable non-status information retention. -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://get.splunk.com/">http://get.splunk.com/</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>