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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!

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 then start nagios

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

Thank you very much Scott !

akripo wrote:Thank you very much Scott !

glad to help!