Questions regarding altering retention.dat file

[akripo]

Hello everyone!

I have a nagios core 4.1.1 installation and I had an incident, corrupting the retention.dat file.

I have made a notifier that uses the $LASTSERVICEPROBLEMID$ and $SERVICEPROBLEMID$ macros and uses them as an index on the issue tracking system.

After the reconstruction of the retention.dat file the macros values started counting from zero and now I have serious conflicts with existing IDs..

Please could you advise if it is possible to manually alter the values of these macros on the retention.dat , by placing higher random values for each of the services without causing issues on the nagios monitoring functionality? I was thinking of just adding on all the IDs a high number, lets say a +1.000.000 .

Thank you!

[scottwilkerson]

First you must stop the nagios service

then if you edit the retention.dat file, right at the top you can change it in this section

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program {
...
next_problem_id=1000000
...
}

then start nagios

this won't fix the ones that have already been created, but will for new problems

[akripo]

Thank you very much Scott !

[scottwilkerson]

Thank you very much Scott !

glad to help!