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grufftech
Asked: 2011-08-03 14:37:54 +0800 CST

Nagios "re-disabled-notifications" on reboot?

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In my configuration, alerts are enabled.

yet somehow; every time i reboot my nagios cluster, it re-disables-notifications on a handful of services.

Oh nagios gods

Oh Nagios Gods, what have I done to offend thee?? I disable these via the web interface, but low and behold every time i change config and reload nagios, bloop! back to disabled they come.

Getting angry. Please help; i wise ones of Serverfault. I'm out of ideas. >.<

  • Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS

    Nagios Core 3.2.0

    Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)

    NagiosQL 3.1.1

ubuntu apache-2.2 nagios

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It is probably the permissions on your state file, make sure the nagios user has write privs on it.

    To find it, grep state_retention_file /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg, or wherever your nagios.cfg is.

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  2. I believe you might want to look at the following option in your nagios.cfg file.

    # USE RETAINED PROGRAM STATE

    # This setting determines whether or not Nagios will set

    # program status variables based on the values saved in the

    # retention file. If you want to use retained program status

    # information, set this value to 1. If not, set this value

    # to 0.

    use_retained_program_state=1

    ----AND ----

    # RETAIN STATE INFORMATION

    # This setting determines whether or not Nagios will save state

    # information for services and hosts before it shuts down. Upon

    # startup Nagios will reload all saved service and host state

    # information before starting to monitor. This is useful for

    # maintaining long-term data on state statistics, etc, but will

    # slow Nagios down a bit when it (re)starts. Since its only

    # a one-time penalty, I think its well worth the additional

    # startup delay.

    retain_state_information=1

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