/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log rotation

[hbouma]

How to I change the rotation of the nagios.log file? Currently, it is only keeping a few hours of data. We would like to keep additional data using the logrotate functionality, but I don't see where the current log rotation settings are kept.

We are on RHEL 7.6 VM's with Nagios XI 5.5.7/

[lmiltchev]

Your log rotation method is probably set to "Hourly" in the nagios.cfg file. Change it to "Daily", and restart nagios service.

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log_rotation_method=d

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service nagios restart

or

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systemctl restart nagios

See the explanation of the log rotation method directives in the nagios.cfg file here:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... gmain.html

Hope this helps. Thank you!

[hbouma]

Thank you. That is the information I needed.

You can close out the ticket.

[lmiltchev]

I am glad I could help!