Where are Acknowledgements/Comments Stored?

[optionstechnology]

Where does nagios store the list of acknowledgements/comments?

Is it only in the database or is there a flat file?

[scottwilkerson]

They are in
/usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat

[optionstechnology]

Thanks!

One more question - is it possible to edit this file? Every time I try it reverts back to the original

[scottwilkerson]

One more question - is it possible to edit this file? Every time I try it reverts back to the original

No, there are 2 options.

1st
Stop nagios from running
edit the retention.dat file after nagios is stopped
start nagios.

2nd
do what you want to do using command to the command pipe, a list can be found here including removing comments etc.
https://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/ex ... ndlist.php

One thing to note, removing a comment, and removing the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT are 2 separate things

[optionstechnology]

Thanks,

That has worked, you can close this

[scottwilkerson]

Great Locking