critical soft state every 3 hours

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 04/20/2012 04:31 PM, Marki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have a problem where all the services checked around 00:01, 03:01, 06:01,
> ..., i.e. every three hours one minute after the hour, return a critical soft
> state. Most of the times they go back to normal, however sometimes they also end
> up in a hard state. You can imagine the rest...
> 
> We are running Nagios in a virtualized environment (vmware), on a SLES10 VM with
> 3GB of RAM and 4 vCPUs. The average load of the machine is about 5.
> 
> We did not succeed in reproducing network trouble when doing basic checks around
> those times from and to other hosts. Indeed the VM running nagios experiences
> packet loss somehow. Even when run on completely different Vmware hosts:
> 
> Tue Apr 17 21:02:01 CEST 2012
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4990 received, 0% packet loss, time 3840ms
> –
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4998 received, 0% packet loss, time 2979ms
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4994 received, 0% packet loss, time 6190ms
> –
> Wed Apr 18 09:02:01 CEST 2012
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4999 received, 0% packet loss, time 5230ms
> –
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4999 received, 0% packet loss, time 3340ms
> –
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4979 received, 0% packet loss, time 11298ms
> –
> Wed Apr 18 12:02:01 CEST 2012
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4978 received, 0% packet loss, time 12764ms
> –
> Wed Apr 18 15:01:01 CEST 2012
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4987 received, 0% packet loss, time 4037ms
> –
> Wed Apr 18 15:02:01 CEST 2012
> 5000 packets transmitted, 4987 received, 0% packet loss, time 9010ms
> 
> Do you think this is related to Nagios? What could that be?
> 

Nope. I think it's related to your vmware instance. Try moving it to a
physical machine and see if the problem persists.

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