Understanding notification_interval and statechanges on free space monitors

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Moran
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 4:23 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Understanding notification_interval and
> statechanges on free space monitors
> 
> 
> I setup Nagios to watch a service.  I thought I had told it to notify
me
> every 16 hours.  Over the weekend, a problem occurred and I was
notified
> every 40 minutes or so.    I can't help but think I must be missing a
> configuration somewhere.

[chop]

> Part of the event log:
> 
> [02-17-2007 23:45:43] SERVICE ALERT: menc001;mc_vol001
> Space;WARNING;HARD;4;DISK WARNING - free space: /Volumes/mc_vol001 0
MB
> (0%):
> [02-17-2007 23:20:43] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: andy;menc001;mc_vol001
> Space;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;DISK CRITICAL - free space:
> /Volumes/mc_vol001 0 MB (0%):
> [02-17-2007 23:20:43] SERVICE ALERT: menc001;mc_vol001
> Space;CRITICAL;HARD;4;DISK CRITICAL - free space: /Volumes/mc_vol001 0
MB
> (0%):
> [02-17-2007 23:15:43] SERVICE ALERT: menc001;mc_vol001
> Space;WARNING;HARD;4;DISK WARNING - free space: /Volumes/mc_vol001 0
MB
> (0%):
> [02-17-2007 23:05:49] Auto-save of retention data completed
successfully.
> [02-17-2007 22:40:43] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: andy;menc001;mc_vol001
> Space;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;DISK CRITICAL - free space:
> /Volumes/mc_vol001 0 MB (0%):
> [02-17-2007 22:40:43] SERVICE ALERT: menc001;mc_vol001
> Space;CRITICAL;HARD;4;DISK CRITICAL - free space: /Volumes/mc_vol001 0
MB
> (0%):
> [02-17-2007 22:05:49] Auto-save of retention data completed
successfully.
> [02-17-2007 21:55:43] SERVICE ALERT: menc001;mc_vol001
> Space;WARNING;HARD;4;DISK WARNING - free space: /Volumes/mc_vol001 0
MB
> (0%):
> [02-17-2007 21:30:43] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: andy;menc001;mc_vol001
> Space;CRITICAL;notify-by-email;DISK CRITICAL - free space:
> /Volumes/mc_vol001 0 MB (0%):

Smells like multiple nagios daemons running. Do you have more than one
started? Stop nagios, see if any remain, kill them, restart nagios.

--
Marc

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