On 20.12.2012 10:00, Simon Oosthoek wrote: > Recently I was confronted by the problem in our nagios server that the > long term statistics (pnp4nagios graphics) are fully dependent on the > host_name. If I change the host_name (and I did!) the previously > recorded data was inaccessible from the WUI. > > Does icinga have this same problem?
pnp4nagios got the problem, not icinga itsself - it just passes the information it gets directly as perfdata to pnp4nagios. when looking at the gui, it fetches the data store presented via pnp4nagios itsself. > > BTW, this sort of thing would be easily avoided if each host would get a > unique identifier of some sort to record their data with. > Is this the reason icinga has "display_name" in addition to host_name? no. the display_name is only for providing an alternate view on the gui, while keeping the identifier in die background. this can be handy for e.g. switches with a service port name (some id) and a port description (a shiny name, pushed into display_name for the gui representation). when initially defining a host->service relation, this should chosen wisely and unique. changes to those are not expected and not the normal case - so the manual procedure of moving the stored rrd and xml files of pnp4nagios need to be done manually. if you require some sort of automated detection of changed host/service names, you need to make sure that a. something diffs old vs new config (core doesn't do that) and b. pnp4nagios gets aware of thesechanges (doesn't get that now, just plain new information). kind regards, Michael > > Cheers > > Simon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial > Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support > Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services > Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d > _______________________________________________ > icinga-users mailing list > icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich mail: michael.friedr...@gmail.com twitter: https://twitter.com/dnsmichi jabber: dnsmi...@jabber.ccc.de irc: irc.freenode.net/icinga dnsmichi icinga open source monitoring position: lead core developer url: https://www.icinga.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
