Nagios alerts when nagios server reboots

[Andreas Ericsson]

Monappallil, George wrote:
> Hi all,
> my nagios instance falsely reports host down alerts for all the servers
> that it monitors (check_host_alive) when the server (that hosts nagios)
> comes back up after the reboot.
> The server in question is a vmware guest. Why does this happen ?
>  

Possibly because the vmware networking stuff isn't set up properly on
boot.

I'd really recommend you not to run your monitoring  server as a vmware
guest. Besides the fact that system clocks usually gets a royal screwover
by vmware, it's a tremenduously bad idea to have your monitoring system
depend on something it's monitoring.

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