recurring CRITICAL alerts

[Gavin Conway]

I've seen this before when we had issued a restart on Nagios and there 
were 2 copies of it running at the same time.

I'm not saying that's what this is but it's worth checking.

Cheers,
Gavin
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Daniel wrote:
> I am running nagios 1.2 and have a passive check that is sent results every 5 minutes from a monitored server. The check is also configured to only send out notifications between 04:00 and 22:30 as the service being monitored is not actually running outside those hours.
> 
> As expected, the service goes into a CRITICAL state during the non-notification period and then resumes an OK state when the service is running again. But then there is a strange situation where it toggles between the previous CRITICAL state 
> and an OK state. Here is an example of what I mean (reading from bottom up). Notice how the CRITICAL alert saying "last updated 2006/09/06 22:21:09" keeps recurring, even though there has been a valid (OK) in between :
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      September 07, 2006 05:00  
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>      
> 
> 
> [07-09-2006 05:26:04] Nagios 1.2 starting... (PID=3385)
> [07-09-2006 05:22:28] Caught SIGTERM, shutting down...
> [07-09-2006 05:20:21] SERVICE ALERT: BTLT-RADGOLDEN;QAT File Age;CRITICAL;HARD;1;QAT File last updated 2006/09/06 22:21:09
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>            September 07, 2006 04:00  
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>            
> 
> 
> 
>       [07-09-2006 04:55:19] SERVICE ALERT: BTLT-RADGOLDEN;QAT File Age;OK;HARD;1;QAT File last updated 2006/09/07 04:38:26
>       [07-09-2006 04:36:38] SERVICE ALERT: BTLT-RADGOLDEN;QAT File Age;CRITICAL;HARD;1;QAT File last updated 2006/09/06 22:21:09
>       [07-09-2006 04:35:13] SERVICE ALERT: BTLT-RADGOLDEN;QAT File Age;OK;HARD;1;QAT File last updated 2006/09/07 04:29:20
>       [07-09-2006 04:34:07] SERVICE ALERT: BTLT-RADGOLDEN;QAT File Age;CRITICAL;HARD;1;QAT File last updated 2006/09/06 22:21:09
>       [07-09-2006 04:19:49] SERVICE ALERT: BTLT-RADGOLDEN;QAT File Age;OK;HARD;1;QAT File last updated 2006/09/07 04:14:04
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>            September 06, 2006 22:00  
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>            
> 
> 
> 
>       [06-09-2006 22:58:58] SERVICE ALERT: BTLT-RADGOLDEN;QAT File Age;CRITICAL;HARD;1;QAT File last updated 2006/09/06 22:21:09
>      
>         
> 
> Not sure if this has anything to do with supressing notifications...if something in the nagios logic isn't getting cleared down? Has anyone any ideas what may be causing this?   
> 
> 
> 
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