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JakeHatMacys , You can create a script that will stop the nagios service, delete the retention.dat file and then start the nagios process back up. service nagios stop rm /usr/local/nagios/var/retention.dat service nagios start Run this script every 8 days. *Retention.dat file contains scheduled dow...

Hello, JakeHatMacys . Event handlers fire off only on service status changes. There is no recurring option for event handlers. And event handlers should still be active during the scheduled downtime. In the scenario you described scripting seems to be the only option. PS: Actually if you turn on th...

We had a situation where we sent an event and the status didn't change for 74 days on the service. Turns out the event originally may have been dropped due to a downtime on the device. Is there a clear setting in the config to resend event handlers say every 7 days if the status has stayed in error ...

If I can get someone with root to set the password back to the default on mariadb what would that command look like??? can DM me it if you like....

I get an access denied error, should that work given we're running mariadb?

Hi, I'm working with Andrew: service mysqld status Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status mysqld.service Unit mysqld.service could not be found. [nagios@xxxxxxxxx bin]$ service mariadb status Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status mariadb.service ● mariadb.service - MariaDB database server Loaded: loade...

Thanks, I'll get this put in on Monday morning... just in case we run into some problems i'd rather have some runway O.o

So this has never been a problem for us per se but i'm alerting with a script and it's only sending the monitor status information at the top layer in the trap. Basically this: Capture.JPG Where as when I click into the service alert I see the full output which is much longer and what i'd like to se...

JakeHatMacys , I think XI was converted to MYSQL a while ago, you may have to go as late as 2014. Here's the link to older versions of XI: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagiosxi/versions.php But there's no guarantee that you won't encounter other problems down the line as this built hasn't be...

JakeHatMacys , We just replicated the same issue that you're having and passed it to our dev team. OracleServer is still not a supported OS for NagiosXI. Take a look here: https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/nagios-xi-installation-prerequisites-14.html I think the problem may be that OracleServer...