service checks randomly disappear

[Subhendu Ghosh]

You probably have multiple daemons updating the same file.

Only run one nagios daemon at a time...

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 aloclarit at aol.com wrote:

> did some more digging and indeed it apeears the status.dat file does not get 
> updated most of the time.
> Whenever i get the error below I check status.dat and there is no entry for 
> the service. If i keep refreshing till it shows up and then check status.dat 
> the service appears in there. Makes sense i guess cause the webinterface 
> relies on status.dat to display the stuff but why is status.dat not properly 
> updated ?
> btw. just tried latest CVS - same prob.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aloclarit at aol.com
> To: aloclarit at aol.com; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:27:06 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] service checks randomly disappear
>
>  forgot to mention that whenever the service DOES show up and I click on it 
> I usually get this error :
>
> Error: Service Status Not Found!
>
> however, if I keep refreshing the proper page will show up and then change 
> back to the error again. Looks like it keeps loosing
> the service status info for these 2 services.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aloclarit at aol.com
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:11:57 -0400
> Subject: [Nagios-users] service checks randomly disappear
>
> guys
>
> I have a really weird problem. I've been running nagios 2.0b3 for months 
> without hickups (except that it never remembers
> host acknowledgements/disabled host notifications after a restart..and yes I 
> have that set in nagios.cfg!)
>
> But here is the big problem :
> I added 2 services for 2 databases and for some reason nagios has trouble 
> being consistent with those 2 services.
> After I first added them the webinterface didn't show them.I had to refresh 
> the page a few times then it showed up - only to disappear again a second 
> later. It keeps doing that. One moment it have 15 services and after a page 
> refresh it shows 17 services.
> Sometimes it shows 16 then 17 or 15 again. This is really driving me nuts.
> I upgraded to 2.04b today but no luck. the funny thing is that this ONLY 
> happens to those 2 services but I cannot see how they
> are different. I'm also checking these 2 services on another box - no 
> problem at all. Then again, all other services on those2 boxes run fine too.
> I tried defining them seperately by box as well as in a hostgroup - no 
> difference.
> Here are the 2 services:
>
> define service{
> use generic-service
> hostgroup_name sdatabases
> service_description CONCURRENT TRANSACTIONS IN WAIT QUEUE
> check_command check_oracle_queue!--service-waits!bspstg!nagios!nagios!20!30
> max_check_attempts 5
> normal_check_interval 5
> contact_groups admins,managers
> }
>
> define service{
> use generic-service
> hostgroup_name sdatabases
> service_description CONCURRENT TRANSACTIONS
> check_command 
> check_oracle_requests!--requests!bspstg!nagios!nagios!1!700!1000
> max_check_attempts 5
> normal_check_interval 5
> contact_groups admins,managers
> }
>
> As I said these 2 are also defined on a devbox so instead of hostgroup_name 
> it says host_name and instead of 'bspstg' it says 'bspdev' but none of that 
> should matter. Here the services are totally consistent whereas in the 
> sdatabases group they keep dis- and re-appearing.
>
> Anyone seen this ??
>
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