check_external_commands option - host showing down when it's up

Marc Powell marc at ena.com
Mon Jul 11 21:48:47 CEST 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sxan [mailto:sxanrr at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 10:20 AM
> To: Marc Powell; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_external_commands option - host showing
down
> when it's up
> 
> 
> Thanks Marc,
> 
> I actually found that same document during my search and it worked out
> well. Now
> to the root of the reason why I needed to enable external commands. I
have
> a host that was going up and down all throughout the weekend due to
power
> issues. This host is now up
> and functioning, yet nagios is still reporting it as being down. I
just
> ran the check again
> manually through the web interface, and it's still reporting the host
as
> down. I can ping
> the host fine from the box that nagios is running on, all other hosts
are
> showing fine. It's
> just this one host. Is there some kind of cache or anything that I
might
> need to clear
> in order to correct this issue?

No, there isn't. Can you run the command successfully exactly as nagios
is configured to run it, as the nagios user, from the command line?

--
Marc


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