[Nagiosplug-help] Regarding Reports in Nagios

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 26/08/09 07:49 AM, Saiprasad @ Yahoo wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I am generating an Availability report in Nagios but the output is
> something weired wherein the Event Duration does not give the data of
> all 24 hrs. I think the attached JPG will make my question more clear.
>  
> Can someone please throw some light on this, as this is very serious for
> me and does not give me an accurate data.

Nagios do not log the state on every service check, but rather when a
state change (and when the output change with state stalking).

According to the output below your report has SOFT states disabled (SOFT
states are non-OK results less than max_check_attempts). Since a
recovery for a SOFT state is also a SOFT recovery you don't see it,
hence the "uncomplete" ranges. This *do not* affect the accuracy of the
report; it's merely a glitch.

I don't know it there's a "better" way of enabling soft states... The
way I do it is:

1. Click on the graph bar - you end up in the alert histogram
2. Click on the availability report link again
3. If soft states are still disabled, look for this in the URL:
  includesoftstates=no
and change it to
  includesoftstates=yes

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Thomas
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