There isn't a second nagios instance. While I was watching the pollers spawn, they all led back to the same master nagios instance. <div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Mike Guthrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mguthrie@nagios.com" target="_blank">mguthrie@nagios.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 12/13/2012 12:38 PM, Mark Keisler wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I understand that nagios dynamically adjusts service
check times, but the puzzling thing is that there is a check that
runs every 5 minutes but then an extra or two in between. And
yes, the web interface shows the next service check as 5 mins out
and yet another runs before that time hits.</blockquote></div>
Is there any chance that there could be a second instance of Nagios
running? Look for multiple *parent* processes from the following<br>
<br>
<pre>#modify the nagios binary path to match your system</pre>
<pre>ps aux | grep /bin/nagios</pre>
<pre></pre>
<pre>/etc/init.d/nagios stop</pre>
<pre>killall -9 nagios</pre>
<pre>/etc/init.d/nagios start</pre><div><div class="h5">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Mike
Guthrie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mguthrie@nagios.com" target="_blank">mguthrie@nagios.com</a>></span>
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<div>Although some of those start times do seem close
together, it's important to know that the check_interval
in Nagios is not necessarily a hard number. Nagios is
continually adjusting and recalculating the check
schedule, so if you need a check to run on a hard 5mn
schedule, you might be better off using cron, and then
pushing the result to Nagios passively. <br>
<br>
With that said, access the service details for this
service. When new results come in does the scheduler set
the Next Check 5mn out as expected?
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On 12/13/2012 9:43 AM, Mark Keisler wrote:<br>
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<div>I'm running Nagios 3.4.1 on RHEL6. I
have an issue where I have a poller (service check)
that is running too often and I am not sure why. I
have "service_check_timeout=180" because I had
trouble with the poller running long. Relevant
settings for the service check:<br>
<br>
check_period 24x7<br>
max_check_attempts 1<br>
normal_check_interval 5<br>
retry_check_interval 5 <br>
<br>
I also set up a tracking logger in the poller to
record "timestamp PID started by PPID : Poll
[Start|End] of poller"<br>
<div>2012-12-12_12:26:38 19448 started by 19442 :
Poll Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:27:13 19448 started by 19442 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:28:14 19931 started by 19930 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:30:14 19931 started by 19930 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:31:37 20467 started by 20460 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:33:15 20949 started by 20946 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:33:15 20467 started by 20460 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:33:41 20949 started by 20946 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:36:38 21483 started by 21478 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:38:14 21971 started by 21964 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:39:17 21483 started by 21478 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:39:18 21971 started by 21964 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:41:38 22500 started by 22492 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:42:19 22500 started by 22492 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:43:14 23003 started by 22999 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:45:20 23003 started by 22999 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:46:37 23540 started by 23535 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:48:14 24025 started by 24024 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:48:20 23540 started by 23535 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:48:41 24025 started by 24024 : Poll
End of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:51:38 24558 started by 24554 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:53:14 25044 started by 25041 : Poll
Start of poller<br>
2012-12-12_12:54:35 25044 started by 25041 : Poll
End of poller<br>
<br>
As you can see, I start to get overlapping
pollers. I don't understand why this would happen.
Any hints or clues?<br>
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