Probably a typo on your config, the directive is: retain_status_information, and you are using retain_state_information.
HTH, Marcel On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 15:21 -0700, Rob Tanner wrote: > 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: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > 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? 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