Strange behaviour of status.dat file

[scagno83]

Hi All,

I am working with a Nagios Core 3.2.3 installation and I am observing a strange behaviour.
When I restart the Nagios daemon I see a lot of message about

SERVICE DOWNTIME ALERT: host xxxx


In the previous days these host were been put in downtime and now they are not listed inside the state_retention_file. It may that the status_file, after the restart, take some information by other file also. I am not understanding what files because the documentation showing that when Nagios is restarted it will use the information stored in the state_retention_file file for setting the initial states of services and hosts before it starts monitoring anything.

Thanks for any help provided.

[scottwilkerson]

Many issues with downtimes including the one you mentioned have been fixed since 3.2.3

http://sourceforge.net/p/nagios/nagiosc ... /Changelog