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We were using start/end times such as "12-02-2013 16:37". It turns out, the seconds are required to be a valid time format. Thank you.

We are running Nagios core 3.5.1. When we attempt to schedule flexible downtime via the CGI web interface, we repeatedly get the message "Start or end time not valid. Go back and verify that you entered all required information correctly." We are able to schedule fixed downtimes without pr...

@scottwilkerson - TY! You nailed it! The only change I had to make was stopping the failover nagios, then sync'ing the retention file. After starting the nagios process again all of the downtime and comments showed up. Our automated startup script does a verify and restart anyway, so no problem addi...

We are aware of the status file, however the documentation states "This file is deleted every time Nagios stops and recreated when it starts." ,which leads me to believe this is a volatile location, and is not the storing mechanism used to record downtime and comments. If "The status ...

We are attempting to configure a second nagios server as a live failover if the primary nagios server becomes unresponsive. We are able to maintain live status information for hosts and services on the failover server by passing results via NSCA. We also have both servers configured to use the same ...