nagios and mysql support problem

Matthew Kent mkent at magoazul.com
Fri Nov 26 09:19:14 CET 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 10:43, The Wolf wrote:
> On 11/24/04 8:13 PM, The Wolf wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am running Nagios 1.2 on RH Enterprise Linux 3 U3 i686.
> > 
> > I configured Nagios to store all data in a MySQL as explained in the 
> > documentation:
> > <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xdata-db.html>
> > 
> > Nagios will run fine for a few hours, then it will loose the connection 
> > to the MySQL db and the following message will appear in the 
> > '/var/log/messages' file:
> > 
> > ---
> > Nov 23 17:54:30 myserver nagios: Error: Could not connect to MySQL 
> > database 'nagios' on host '127.0.0.1' using username 'nagios' and 
> > password 'mypassword'.  Retention data will not be processed or saved!
> > ---
> > 
> > I verified with the 'mysql' command line client that the login info is 
> > correct, it is obviously correct since I didn't change it! :-)
> > 
> > I even restarted Nagios and the MySQL server, no luck: still getting the 
> > same error message about Nagios not being able to connect to the MySQL db.
> > 
> > The only way to get Nagios back to work is to empty all its db tables, 
> > that is delete all the Nagios db records and start with empty tables.
> > 
> > This problem already happened three times in a day, I reverted to Nagios 
> > without database support, but it would be great to figure out the 
> > problem and run Nagios with db support for me.
> > 
> > Any idea on what could be the problem and how to fix it?
> > 
> > It looks like some data gets corrupted or something like that ...
> > 
> > Thanks a lot.
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Thanks.

Sounds interesting, have you gone through the mysql logs? And what
version of mysql is it?

- Matt



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