Nagios running checks way too often

[Doug Eubanks]

Of course you are correct, here's one of the services.  According to the
site log, it looks like Nagios is firing off three to four requests to the
server, each time it's being checked.  These log entries are all from one
vhost log file, so it's not like Nagios is checking 4 sites, it's checking
the same site 4 times at once.

NagiosServer - - [05/Dec/2012:19:09:40 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 22459
"-" "check_http/v1.4.16 (nagios-plugins 1.4.16)"
NagiosServer - - [05/Dec/2012:19:09:40 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 22459
"-" "check_http/v1.4.16 (nagios-plugins 1.4.16)"
NagiosServer - - [05/Dec/2012:19:09:40 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 22459
"-" "check_http/v1.4.16 (nagios-plugins 1.4.16)"
NagiosServer - - [05/Dec/2012:19:09:40 -0500] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 22459
"-" "check_http/v1.4.16 (nagios-plugins 1.4.16)"

define service {
        host_name       server
        service_description     www.website.com
        initial_state   o
        is_volatile     0
        max_check_attempts      2
        normal_check_interval   2
        retry_interval  1
        first_notification_delay        0
        active_checks_enabled   1
        passive_checks_enabled  1
        check_period    24x7
        parallelize_check       1
        obsess_over_service     1
        check_freshness 1
        freshness_threshold     60
        event_handler_enabled   1
        process_perf_data       1
        retain_status_information       1
        retain_nonstatus_information    1
        notification_interval   4
        notification_period     24x7
        notifications_enabled   1
        action_url
 /pnp4nagios/index.php?host=$HOSTNAME$&srv=$SERVICEDESC$
        check_command   check_http - vhost - url - string!www.website.com
!/!Ap$
        icon_image      www.png
        display_name    website.com
        notification_options    w,u,c,r,f,s
        stalking_options        o,w,u,c
        contact_groups  Null Placeholder Group
        servicegroups   Public Facing Services
}

Sincerely,
Doug Eubanks
admin at dougware.net
K1DUG
(919) 201-8750



On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Claudio Kuenzler <ck at claudiokuenzler.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Doug Eubanks <admin at dougware.net> wrote:
>
>> Nagios is checking services way too often.  It's supposed to check once
>> every 2 minutes, then failback to checking once every 1 minute on a failure.
>>
>> I believe this is the relevant parts of the nagios.cfg file:
>>
>
> Actually the relevant part for how often a check should be executed is in
> the service definition of the check. Mostly the service itself uses a
> template with the "use" option. In this case you have to check your
> templates.cfg file.
>
> If you don't find it, please post the relevant service definition and the
> definition of the template being used by the service.
>
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