Nagios stopped checking most of my services!

[Casey Allen Shobe]

Was your nagios interface still showing whatever the service status  
was from the last time it ran the checks as though they were current?

I just joined this list over the same problem with 3.2.0.  Nagios was  
showing all green (got 95 services across 12 hosts), then when I went  
to demo it to my boss who just got back from vacation, I killed a box,  
and was surprised to see Nagios continue showing green.  When I looked  
in detail I saw that the checks had actually not been running in  
days...  I restarted Nagios a number of times to no avail.  I finally  
echoed a force check into the nagios.cmd file for a host, and got a  
lot of messages about how the services seemed orphaned.  I do have the  
check for orphans config option enabled (99% of my nagios.cfg is  
default).

I was finally able to get Nagios fixed by stopping it, removing  
retention.dat, and starting it again.  But I don't really want to  
disable retention unless I have to...

I was thinking this might have something to do with my failover setup  
(though I don't see why).  I have two boxes in a Heartbeat+DRBD  
configuration, with Nagios (and all it's configuration, /var files,  
etc.) on the DRBD partition.  It /seems/ to failover just fine.  After  
seeing this, I tested failing over back and forth about a dozen times  
and Nagios did not seem to get hung up in the same way, so I don't  
understand what caused this.

Maybe we have the same problem?

On Nov 2, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Les Fenison wrote:

> I had nagios working great.  Checking 6 hosts and about 85  
> services.  Then suddenly, all services on all hosts except one  
> stopped checking.  The next scheduled check is about 24 hours from  
> the last check.  I had been checking every 5 minutes.
>
> Restarting nagios didn't help.    I am using a gui NagioSQL to edit  
> my configuration files so I suspect it did something to me but I  
> have no clue where to look except where I have already looked.
>
> What can cause nagios to just stop checking everything like that or  
> to randomly switch to every 24 hours rather than the configured  
> every 5 minutes?
>
> I am having to manually do force checks to get it to check.
>
> Here are some things I have checked...
>
> Hosts  check_interval is 5, retry_interval is 1
> Services  check_interval is 10, retry_interval is 2
>
> So where could Nagios be getting the idea that it is suppose to be  
> every 24 hours?

-- 
Casey Allen Shobe
casey at shobe.info


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