Groundwork Support Forum

[Guest]

When you save the configuration, it seems to over-write, all the historical data. Is there an option for the new hosts, to be appended to the data?

Thanks,
John

[Peter_Loh]

Hi John. I'm a little unclear about your question. Are you refering to the old data in the configuration tool? The tool should not be erasing old hosts that you have created. When you add hosts, then do a commit to load the data into Nagios, the hosts that you've added should still be there.
If you are talking about the hosts created by our configuration tool to be added to your current, existing Nagios configuration, there is a way to do that. You can load your current configuration into our tool, use our tool to modify or add to your configuration, the commit all the changes. To do that, go to Configuration, Control, Load. Use this wizard to load your existing configuration. You can then modify it and when you commit, all your changes will be into Nagios.
If I've misunderstood please clarify.
Peter

[jwroe]

Peter,

When you click on the commit button, and then go through through nagios or the status, and take a look at the last time the device was checked, it will show that the the device has never been checked, instead of the last time that it was. This occurs for every old device that is in there, before adding new devices, and clicking on commit.

Thanks,
John

[dblunt]

John,

Can you check the Nagios setting 'retain_state_information' in your nagios.cfg file after the commit? It sounds like when Nagios is restarting that it's not remembering states prior to the restart.

Dave.