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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I thought of something else, something that
HAS changed. I’m now using NSCA across a firewall. Could this be the problem
for #2?</span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks!</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Mike</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mike Koponick<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Wednesday,
 February 15, 2006</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><font
 size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>8:10 AM</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Nagios Users<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Nagios-users] Nagios
Hang?</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I’m running Nagios 2.0
(Stable) on Redhat 9.0, in a distributed environment. I’m utilizing NSCA
for checks and all appears to be working properly.</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I’m running into several
issues that seemed to have “started all of a sudden”.</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1)</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>       </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>On my
distributed server, I don’t see syslog messages any longer, with the
exception of “</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>INITIAL</span></font><font size=2
 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
  size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>SERVICE</span></font><font
 size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
  size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>STATE</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>”
messages. Syslog is working, and in the nagios.cfg file,
“nagios.cfg:use_syslog=1” I used to see all the check messages,
etc. Nothing in the configuration has changed to the best of my knowledge. </span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>2)</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>       </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nagios
appears to “hang” on the remote sensor. Once I receive
notifications that network devices are down, I never see a recovery of the
network devices, even though they are recovered. The work around is to restart
nagios with “service nagios restart”. Sometimes, this takes
multiple tries. </span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>3)</span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:7.0pt'>       </span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>When I have
a massive network outage, I receive the appropriate alerts but I receive
multiple “PROBLEM” notifications. I’m only using service checks
(I’m only using check_ping currently) and the notification_interval set
to “0”, which according to the documentation should limit the
amount of messages I’m receiving to “1”, unless I’m
using the service escalations, which I am not at this time. I am not receiving
multiple notifications for “OK” messages, which is what I would
expect.</span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sorry about the novel but these have
frustrated me into drinking lots of beer.</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>

<p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:
.0001pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mike</span></font></p>

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