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@@ -119,3 +119,12 @@ with the nagios-plugins.
To monitor Windows hosts, install NSClient++ on them.
Do check the http://wiki.nagios.org pages for some useful information.
+
+3) Growing log files
+--------------------
+
+If you are monitoring several items, your log files can grow considerably.
+Nagios keeps a history of all logs in /var/nagios/archives/.
+After a few months this can be quite a bit of information, so consider
+creating some kind of clean-up or compacting script (Left as an exercise to
+the reader :) )