How to "purge" an old host from the Nagios database
Andreas Ericsson
ae at op5.se
Thu May 19 15:31:10 CEST 2005
Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>>
>> I am experiencing some strange false alarms after reinstalling the
>> OS on a server. I monitor this host, vieuxbleu, with NRPE.
>>
>> On vieuxbleu, running the plugin manually is always OK (tested every
>> 2" for 5' with watch), but on the Nagios host I have some brief false
>> alarm. If I refresh the web page very frequently, the service is
>> mainly OK with a duration of 1d 18h 17m, but sometime the service is
>> shown as CRITICAL with a duration of 2d 18h 59m.
>
>
> You probably have more than one nagios processes running. Unfortunately,
> that happens easily, because on shutdown the process often remains running.
>
> Check with ps or pstree or top or whatever you prefer.
>
> If this is the case, shutnagios down normally, wait a little, and issue
> something like killall -9 nagios.
>
> Then, you can restart nagios and everything should be fine again.
>
> And, while nagios is not running...
>
>> I suspect a mess in the database, so I would like to know if there
>> is a way to "purge" a host in the database. My goal is to start
>> with a clean background before investingating further on.
>
>
> ... you simply delete the files from /usr/local/nagios/var (in a
> standard installation). Note that you probably want to keep the log
> file, as well as the archives.
>
A cleaner solution would be to purge only the affected host from the
logs with something like
mv nagios.log old.nagios.log
sed /hostname/d old.nagios.log > nagios.log
Make sure you get the permissions and ownerships right on nagios.log
when you're done.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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