[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#675046: icinga-core: retention.dat / sync.dat move seems to be not handled

[Michael Friedrich]

On 29.05.2012 21:27, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> severity 675046 grave
> stop
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> On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 20:58 +0200, Michael Friedrich wrote:
>> i would raise severity as such a change without copying the old retained
>> data will cause possible regression.
> done.

uhm. i would leave that decision to debian packagers ...
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>>> - delete them in the old locations
>> don't do that. this will break your history (except log archives).
> I've already did this for myself (though I'd have a backup)... what
> exactly do you mean by "break".. is it just as if all modifications in
> via the CGI were gone and one starts from scratch?

not only runtime commands changing attributes, but also downtimes, 
comments and acknowledgements. read more on the docs, which different 
setting can be used. i got complaints by a user recently when modifying 
the rpms while testing 1.7 packages.

http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/configmain.html#configmain-retain_state_information
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> CHeers,
> Chris.


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