Disabling Host checks on a host group

[peter.zanetti]

I have created a host group to throw our non production devices in. We then go and disable the host checks for that hostgroup.

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The host ckecks don't run and all appears well. However, after going back and checking a day later the host checks on these devices have ran. Does disabling the host checks expire after a certain period? Is there a way to make this period last longer?

[tmcdonald]

Do you have any other admins that might have re-enabled them? Do you have retain_state_information set to 0 in your /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg?

What XI version is this?

[peter.zanetti]

There is another admin but he would not change it. The retain state is "retain_state_information=1". Our XI version is 2.7

[lmiltchev]

Did you look for clues in the audit log?

Admin->Audit Log

Can you recreate the issue? Have you rebooted the server after disabling the active checks for the services in your hostgroup?

[peter.zanetti]

I can't find anything in the audit log that shows that someone changed it back.

For the time being we just set a downtime for all the devices in the hostgroup so its hard to tell if the issue has been recreated. We did not reboot the server after disabling the host checks.

[abrist]

Alright.
If you use a ramdisk, it could have filled (or been disabled), damaging (or losing) retention.dat and forcing it to be recreated.