Nagios running checks way too often

[Doug Eubanks]

We use Lilac as a configuration GUI, and as a sanity check I checked to
make sure the service was only specified once in the configuration file.

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



On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Doug Eubanks <admin at dougware.net> wrote:

> 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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