<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C2B336.CEDF1ED0">  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> Well I’m about to give up and install this central server on another box. Running it on RH8 and it’s driving me nuts. I have 1 central server accepting only passive service checks. Also 2 distributed servers which submit passive checks to the centralized server’s nsca daemon. Watching /var/log/messages I can clearly see all the EXTERNAL COMMANDS being submitted exactly as I’d expect them to. All services are reporting and showing up OK including Ping. Yet when I look at “host detail” or “service detail” something doesn’t mesh.. Either there’s a bug in nagios or I seriously have something wacky going on here..<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Despite the fact that all services report ok, under “host details” I have a variety of servers showing up as RED/DOWN.. Last Check is recent. Status Information is always “CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds”. Status is either UNREACHABLE (most of them), or DOWN (1 of them).<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Ok so I click on “service details”.. over there all services report “OK” and green. For some odd reason the Ping services are old in the last checked column. Like 7 hours.. Even though I can watch /var/log/messages and see that I’m receiving PING updates as OK regularly.. The other services mostly have recent updates but there are a lot of them that are 1,2, and even 3 hours out of date. Why is my services detail page so out of date?<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Someone points out that I may have multiple nagios servers running on the machine and well yes that’s partially true. Initially when I start nagios it spawns one nagios –d process but soon they start to multiply. Long term I have seen them climb up to 4000 which seems excessive to me. Far as I can tell they don’t reduce in numbers nor do they seem to go much higher then 4000. We’re running netsaint in a much larger distributed environment here checking hundreds and hundreds of services and it also spawns multiple netsaint processes.. but not as many.. seems to top out usually around 500.. so as far as I can tell this behavior of multiple processes is normal.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> So what the hell is going on here? Does anyone out there run a distributed environment with a centralized server?<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> Gerald Wichmann<o:p></o:p> Senior Systems Development Engineer<o:p></o:p> Zantaz, Inc.<o:p></o:p> 925.598.3099 (w)<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html> This e-mail has been captured and archived by the ZANTAZ Digital Safe(tm) service. For more information, visit us at www.zantaz.com. IMPORTANT: This electronic mail message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone or directly reply to the original message(s) sent. Thank you.