Warning: Monitoring process may not be running!

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Thomas Earl
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:29 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Warning: Monitoring process may not be
running!
> 
> Greetings to all,
> 
> Ok, Looks like our Nagios crashed some time in the last day or so
without
> so
> much as a peep... Now when I restart it (pre-flight is ok) there is no
> problem with the process, but on the webpage I'm getting "Warning:
> Monitoring process may not be running!" and when I look under the
process
> Info I see the following...
> 
> Program Start Time: 02-17-2005 22:17:24
> Total Running Time: 0d 0h 5m 16s
> Last External Command Check: 02-17-2005 22:22:24
> Last Log File Rotation: N/A
> Nagios PID 20634
> Notifications Enabled?   YES
> Service Checks Being Executed?   YES
> Passive Service Checks Being Accepted?   YES
> Event Handlers Enabled? Yes
> Obsessing Over Services? No
> Flap Detection Enabled? No
> Performance Data Being Processed? No
> 
> Process Commands
> It appears as though Nagios is not running, so commands are
temporarily
> unavailable...
> 
> Process Status:   CRITICAL
> Check Command Output:  Could not locate a running Nagios process!
> 
> Looking in the /usr/local/nagios/var, I see the nagios.lock file and I
see
> the nagios.cmd in /usr/local/nagios/var/rw
> 
> What am I not seeing/checking for here?

A 'ps' to see if nagios is actually running and that the ps output is
the same as what the nagios_check_command in cgi.cfg is expecting. Had
you upgraded anything without restarting that became effective when the
machine rebooted?

--
Marc



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