I have gone over the documents again this morning and don't think I missed anything. Here is all the relevant information I can think of as well: OS: SLES 9.3 Nagios: 2.9 Plugins: 1.4.10 NRPE: 2.9 NDOUtils: 1.4.9 Addons: NagiosQL, NagVis This system is in the testing phase at this time so I can do anything that needs to be done. When I reload nagios (/etc/init.d/nagios reload) it takes upwards of a full minute to bring everything back up for viewing. In the meantime a message is displayed concerning the status of the nagios daemon: Error: Could not read host and service status information! This goes away in between 90 second and two minutes and everything begins to function normally and the system goes on that way until the next time I have to reload the configuration. The suggestion on this page are: 1. Check the Nagios log file for messages relating to startup or status data errors. [1191938804] Caught SIGHUP, restarting... [1191938804] ndomod: Shutdown complete. [1191938804] Event broker module '/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o' deinitialized successfully. [1191938804] Nagios 2.9 starting... (PID=22953) [1191938804] LOG VERSION: 2.0 [1191938804] ndomod: NDOMOD 1.4b6 (09-27-2007) Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Ethan Galstad (nagios@nagios.org) [1191938804] ndomod: Successfully connected to data sink. 0 queued items to flush. [1191938804] Event broker module '/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o' initialized successfully. [1191938804] Warning: Contact group 'infrasyalerts' is not used in any host/service definitions or host/service esc alations! [1191938804] Warning: Contact group 'notesadmins' is not used in any host/service definitions or host/service escal ations! [1191938804] Warning: Host performance file processing command 'process-host-perfdata-file' was not found - host pe rformance data file will not be processed! [1191938804] Warning: Service performance file processing command 'process-service-perfdata-file' was not found - s ervice performance data file will not be processed! 2. Always verify configuration options using the -v command-line option before starting or restarting Nagios! Done and nagios is actually running 3. Make sure you've compiled the main program and the CGIs to use the same status data storage options (i.e. text file or database). If the main program is storing status data in a text file and the CGIs are trying to read status data from a database, you'll have problems. This is where I suspect the issue might be hiding. I am using NDOUtils and did not compile nagios is any special manner. I suspect, if this is actually an error, that it is somewhere in the text files vs. DB issue. I could be insane and this just could be how long it takes nagios to HUP when using NDOUtils. No matter the issue I suspect this list is where I will find my answer. Thanks in advance for everyone's time. Best Regards, Mark L. Potter Systems Engineer Academy Sports & Outdoors