Ton Voon wrote:
> On 13 Mar 2007, at 17:19, Sebastian Schubert wrote:
>
>> on behalf of lars michelsen, who can't post to this mailinglist *g*
>>> Hi,
>>> i'm a developer of NagVis, in the actual version we have a problem
>>> with reading host/service states from NDO. We filter the objects
>>> with the flag is_active. Actualy we are not sure what the flag is
>>> used for, we gues it's to hold objects for historical informations
>>> in the DB.
>>> I just had a look at NDO-1.4b2 sources (dbhandlers.c).
>>>
>>> It looks like all objects in NDO are first set to is_active=0
>>> (function: ndo2db_set_object_as_inactive()).
>>>
>>> Then the up to date objects will be updated/created (Function:
>>> ndo2db_handle_definition). In this process all objects
>>> expect services and hosts run the function
>>> ndo2db_set_object_as_active() to set the objects to is_active=1.
>>>
>>> Maybe it's a bug? Maybe not. I just had a short look at the sources.
>>>
>>> If this is no bug, could anyone please explain what the flag
>>> is_active stands for and in which cases it's used?
>
> We discovered this bug a few months ago: http://altinity.blogs.com/
> dotorg/2007/01/helping_ndoutil.html.
>
> Ethan has applied to CVS, but not generated a new release.
>
> Ton
>
Yep, I'll make a 1.4b3 release shortly that will have this fix applied.
Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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