Nagios not running every midnight

[Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano]

On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 09:20 +0000, Hari Sekhon wrote:
> 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

Daily log rotation. check_nagios --help to see what it is doing to check
the activity of running nagios process.

> 
> 
> 
> 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.

Probably you have service dependencies to check only if the nagios
process is running?

> 
> 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



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