alerts for a service that is not defined anymore..?

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Daniel maher
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 10:45 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] alerts for a service that is not defined
> anymore..?
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm currently receiving alerts for a service that no longer exists,
and is
> no longer defined in Nagios.  I commented out the service entry in
> services.cfg, and restarted (clean, not HUP) the Nagios process.  The
> service is not visible in any part of the web interface, and all
traces of
> it in the configuration files are commented out; yet, I am still
receiving
> alerts every 10 minutes about the fact that the service is in a
critical
> state.
> 
> Any ideas?  I'm getting tired of deleting these alerts. :(

This is a classic symptom of having multiple Nagios processes running or
of a failed restart. Are you sure the restart worked? I'd suggest you
stop Nagios, use ps to verify that all processes are stopped, kill any
that remain and restart Nagios.

--
Marc



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