Duration resets for all Services with Apply Config

[SavaSC]

Hello,

Recently NagiosXI has started resetting the Duration time for all Services and Hosts when Apply Configuration is pressed. This is making the Duration column completely useless. Every little change (such as to the Description of a host) will cause all of the Duration data for all Services and Hosts to reset.

This hasn't always happened. Is there a setting I can change to keep the Duration data for non-affected Hosts and Services in place on a Apply Configuration?

Version 2014R2.7

Thank you for your help!

[ssax]

Please post the output of this command:

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ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var

[SavaSC]

Here you go.

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# ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var
total 34648
drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios    65536 Jul  1 23:59 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios        0 Jul  2 12:17 host-perfdata
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios      178 Jul  2 10:22 nagios.configtest
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios        6 Jul  2 10:07 nagios.lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios   577000 Jul  2 12:17 nagios.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios        5 Jun  5 08:34 ndo2db.lock
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios        0 Jul  2 10:07 ndomod.tmp
srwxr-xr-x 1 nagios nagios        0 Jun  5 08:34 ndo.sock
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios  2201015 Jun  5 08:34 npcd.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 10485835 Oct  9  2013 npcd.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios  2638701 Jul  2 10:07 objects.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios  2638701 Jul  2 10:22 objects.precache
-rw-rw-rw- 1 nagios nagios  8488151 Apr  9 04:55 perfdata.log
-rw------- 1 nagios nagios  4148062 Jul  2 12:07 retention.dat
drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagcmd     4096 Jul  2 10:07 rw
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios        0 Jul  2 12:17 service-perfdata
drwxrwxr-x 5 nagios nagios     4096 Mar  1  2011 spool
drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios     4096 Jan  9 15:29 stats
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios  4131013 Jul  2 12:17 status.dat

[abrist]

Is state retention enabled?

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grep retain_state /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

[SavaSC]

Here is the result:

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# grep retain_state /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
retain_state_information=1

[abrist]

Lets check a few more directives:

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grep "state\|retention\|retain" /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

[SavaSC]

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# grep "state\|retention\|retain" /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
log_initial_states=0
retained_contact_host_attribute_mask=0
retained_contact_service_attribute_mask=0
retained_host_attribute_mask=0
retained_process_host_attribute_mask=0
retained_process_service_attribute_mask=0
retained_service_attribute_mask=0
retain_state_information=1
retention_update_interval=60
soft_state_dependencies=0
state_retention_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/retention.dat
use_retained_program_state=1
use_retained_scheduling_info=1

[tmcdonald]

Does the duration also reset in the Core interface? You can get to it by visiting http://<server ip>/nagios and using your XI credentials.

[SavaSC]

Does the duration also reset in the Core interface? You can get to it by visiting http://<server ip>/nagios and using your XI credentials.

Sorry for the delay.

Yes, it does. I did an Apply Configuration in XI and it affected both XI and Core.

[lmiltchev]

Can you post the entire "nagios.cfg" file?