Nagios is sending critical false alerts about current users

Claudio Kuenzler ck at claudiokuenzler.com
Tue Jan 24 11:54:36 CET 2012


When Nagios sends the notifications, how is the actual status of that
service on the UI?
Also, do you see the notifications as they were emailed on the UI (in
Notifications)?

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Saikrishna <lovesaikrishna at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Nagios seems to be sending false alerts about few hosts, (ex: There were
> no users on one host and still Nagios was reporting a critical alert and
> says 6 users are logged in. How do I fix this one?
>
> Also, I have installed nagios and added 12 hosts as a start and monitoring
> few details on them, how do I send false alerts and check if they are being
> reported through nagios server?
>
> [root at proof etc]# uname -a
> Linux proof 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 22 04:43:29 EDT 2011 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root at proof etc]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> CentOS release 5.7 (Final)
>
> [root at proof objects]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v
>
> Nagios Core 3.2.3
> Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Nagios Core Development Team and Community
> Contributors
> Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
> Last Modified: 10-03-2010
> License: GPL
>
> Website: http://www.nagios.org
> Usage: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios [options] <main_config_file>
>
> Options:
>
>   -v, --verify-config          Verify all configuration data
>   -s, --test-scheduling        Shows projected/recommended check
> scheduling and other
>                                diagnostic info based on the current
> configuration files.
>   -x, --dont-verify-paths      Don't check for circular object paths - USE
> WITH CAUTION!
>   -p, --precache-objects       Precache object configuration - use with -v
> or -s options
>   -u, --use-precached-objects  Use precached object config file
>   -d, --daemon                 Starts Nagios in daemon mode, instead of as
> a foreground process
>
> Visit the Nagios website at http://www.nagios.org/ for bug fixes, new
> releases, online documentation, FAQs, information on subscribing to
> the mailing lists, and commercial support options for Nagios.
>
> [root at proof objects]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagiostats
>
> Nagios Stats 3.2.3
> Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Ethan Galstad (www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 10-03-2010
> License: GPL
>
> CURRENT STATUS DATA
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Status File:                            /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat
> Status File Age:                        0d 0h 0m 7s
> Status File Version:                    3.2.3
>
> Program Running Time:                   0d 1h 16m 58s
> Nagios PID:                             28047
> Used/High/Total Command Buffers:        0 / 0 / 4096
>
> Total Services:                         78
> Services Checked:                       78
> Services Scheduled:                     78
> Services Actively Checked:              78
> Services Passively Checked:             0
> Total Service State Change:             0.000 / 12.700 / 1.263 %
> Active Service Latency:                 0.015 / 12.142 / 0.551 sec
> Active Service Execution Time:          0.005 / 4.028 / 0.678 sec
> Active Service State Change:            0.000 / 12.700 / 1.263 %
> Active Services Last 1/5/15/60 min:     16 / 44 / 78 / 78
> Passive Service Latency:                0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 sec
> Passive Service State Change:           0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
> Passive Services Last 1/5/15/60 min:    0 / 0 / 0 / 0
> Services Ok/Warn/Unk/Crit:              65 / 0 / 0 / 13
> Services Flapping:                      0
> Services In Downtime:                   0
>
> Total Hosts:                            13
> Hosts Checked:                          13
> Hosts Scheduled:                        13
> Hosts Actively Checked:                 13
> Host Passively Checked:                 0
> Total Host State Change:                0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
> Active Host Latency:                    4.145 / 23.283 / 12.981 sec
> Active Host Execution Time:             4.008 / 4.016 / 4.010 sec
> Active Host State Change:               0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
> Active Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min:        0 / 13 / 13 / 13
> Passive Host Latency:                   0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 sec
> Passive Host State Change:              0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %
> Passive Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min:       0 / 0 / 0 / 0
> Hosts Up/Down/Unreach:                  13 / 0 / 0
> Hosts Flapping:                         0
> Hosts In Downtime:                      0
>
> Active Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min:     3 / 22 / 55
>    Scheduled:                           0 / 13 / 33
>    On-demand:                           3 / 9 / 22
>    Parallel:                            0 / 13 / 33
>    Serial:                              0 / 0 / 0
>    Cached:                              3 / 9 / 22
> Passive Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min:    0 / 0 / 0
> Active Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min:  16 / 44 / 135
>    Scheduled:                           16 / 44 / 135
>    On-demand:                           0 / 0 / 0
>    Cached:                              0 / 0 / 0
> Passive Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 0 / 0 / 0
>
> External Commands Last 1/5/15 min:      0 / 0 / 0
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Saikrishna
>
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