Nagios Support Forum

We have a particular temporary need to show all checks performed on a host in Nagios XI. (version 2014R1.0).

Is that possible? We need to have a report of ALL ok service checks to verify exactly when a check was performed on a machine. In state history, it only shows OK after there has been a failure of a service.

We need to view successive ok checks.

The state history report will show both hard and soft states, make sure you are on a recent version of XI such as 2014 r1.1 and you should have a drop down allowing you to select this.

Sorry, I may not have been clear in my original post.

Our version (2014 R1.0) DOES have an option for both hard and soft states, and I have selected BOTH from the drop down menu.

However, since I configured a 5 minute interval between checks, I should be able to see an OK in my status history once every 5 minutes all day long - if my service is up all day, I would like to see 288 OK alerts for each 5 minutes throughout that entire day. This would provide proof to our auditors that in fact nagios is checking the service once every 5 minutes.

Is that possible to configure?

No, the State History report shows the state changes - it is not going to show all of the "OK" checks.

This is not presently possible with any of the current reports. Setting the service to volatile will likely force them all to be entered into the db, but I can't imagine it will be too healthy for it. You should be able to find this information in the nagios.log file, but it will require manual parsing.

OK...thanks for verifying that for me. I'll get that data from the log.

Yeah that would probably be the easiest way, and nothing that does this currently exists to my knowledge. I would stop by the exchange and look around though:

http://exchange.nagios.org/

Wouldn't the event log do this? When I look at mine it shows all events, OK checks, Unkown, Warning, Critical, notifications, flapping alerts, everything. There's a filter as well if you want to only show the events for a particular host. I mean, this will literally show everything that happens on that host, but it could be worth looking at. Might be close to what you're looking for.

That's a good point snapon, didn't even occur to me!