Hi Marc, I found it. The time between reload and start writing that config file was almost nothing, so after reloading - nagios had problems already reading this file. It probably was by then already empty. So I inserted a sleep 1 between reload & rewriting that config file and ..... ..... no PENDING state anymore. Even If you didn't find it, you helped me by getting things clear and thus being myself able to recheck better. Thanks. Have nice weekend. Uwe <div class="gmail_quote"> 2009/2/13 Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Please always reply on list so that others may learn from your experience or offer insight. More below... <div class="Ih2E3d"> On Feb 13, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Uwe Bartels wrote: > Hi Marc, > > thanks for your answer. > retain_status_information is set per default to 1 in the template > generic-service. > setting this parameter explicitely in the service definition of the > monitor which looses its state did not help either. > > - I set the parameter 'retain_status_information 1' > - reloaded > - and run my config procedure > -> state is again pending. </div>Well, I've been doing the same thing as you under netsaint/nagios every hour for almost 8 years now and haven't experienced this. I'd be surprised if a new issue appeared with nagios-3 so I'm leaning more toward some config issue. Does retain_status_information appear in the service definition in objects.cache? Are you sure that the hostname/ service_description are exactly the same between reloads? How about retain_nonstatus_information? Try enabling that. I'm not 100% certain which each controls but I use both. Also, just because it commonly causes strangeness, be sure you don't have multiple nagios daemons running at the same time. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -- Marc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">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 </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Uwe Bartels Systemarchitect - Freelancer mailto: <a href="mailto:uwe.bartels@gmail.com">uwe.bartels@gmail.com</a> tel: +49 172 3899006