Nagios not running every midnight

[Sloane, Robert Raymond]

It sounds like your script is running at exactly the time that Nagios
rotates the log files.  You might try running it every 10 minutes
starting at 5 minutes past the hour and see if that helps.

-- 
Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
Email:sloane at ku.edu http://www.ku.edu/home/sloane Phone:(785)864-0444
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Hari Sekhon
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:20 AM
> To: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios not running every midnight
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a weird thing that I've noticed. I have an external 
> script to 
> use the check_nagios plugin to make sure nagios itself is running. I 
> have this cronned to run every 10 minutes and if nagios is 
> found to not 
> be running then I get an email warning me of this.
> 
> The problem I'm having is that every single night at midnight 
> exactly I 
> always get an email saying that nagios is not running, the 
> explanation 
> being the output of the plugin as follows:
> 
> NAGIOS CRITICAL: Cannot parse Nagios log file for valid time
> 
> 
> 
> This is followed by several Recovery Alert emails for a 
> handful of the 
> 112 services I currently monitor reporting that the service 
> is ok. This 
> is strange because I never received any Alert emails that the 
> services 
> were down. I suspect there is nothing wrong with the services 
> at all but 
> this is a nagios quirk or some bug in my configuration or the 
> way I am 
> doing things.
> 
> This occurs every single night. I am running nagios 2.5 with 
> nagios-plugins 1.4.3.
> 
> Any ideas what I can do about this?
> 
> -h
> 
> -- 
> Hari Sekhon
> 
> 
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