Various timing related issues with Nagios, critical impact on monitoring.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jon Gefaell wrote:
> Not only am I having problems with the notification interval, other
> strangeness is rearing it's head. Last night there was a host down
> alarm, no service check problems, just a host down. Then, 40 seconds
> (SECONDS!) later, Host OK. What could possibly explain this? There's no
> check interval of 40 seconds... And shouldn't a host check be preceeded
> by service failures?
> 
> Another host had an check_http service check timeout. Generated a
> critical alert notificiation. Nothing else until 20 minutes later when
> it went 'OK. This is confusing,  Given that my notification interval
> seems stuck at 25 minutes it makes sense we only got one notification,
> but our alternate alarm systems (remote services) never alarmed at all,
> the service was fully available during these 20 minutes. The alarm was
> just a timeout on the plugin and then it seems nothing happened for 20
> minutes???
> 
> I set notification interval to 15 and still get notifications every 25
> minutes. I can't figure it out.
> 
>  
> 
> Please do try to help address these issues, our use of Nagios is heavily
> impacted by the inability to configure things like the notification
> interval and the other behaviours described here.
> 

Re-check your configuration (I have never come this kind of behaviour in 
stable code that wasn't due to misconfiguration), kill all nagios 
processes, delete the retention file and reboot your system.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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