Odd Nagios problem, displaying old data only some of the time

[Marc Powell]

Sounds like the classic and well discussed symptoms of having multiple
copies of nagios running. Stop nagios, verify that all the processes are
dead and restart nagios.

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Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Jeremy [mailto:jmartin at gsi-kc.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 12:25 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> I'm having a, you guessed it, odd problem with Nagios that I was
hoping
> someone here could help me with.
> 
> Today we had one server that was having problems. For some reason
Nagios
> would only display the problems half of the time when going to the
Status
> Grid or "View Status Detail For This Host". The other half of the time
all
> the checks on that server were in the green, but it said Last Check:
06-
> 11-2003 (when it should have read 06-13-2003 of course). Every 30
seconds
> or so Nagios would toggle back and forth between showing the "red"
status
> (last check 06-13) and the "green" status (last check 06-11).
> 
> I'm assuming this is some sort of permission error. I have
> .../nagios/var/rw set up ok (chmod 2770 with apache in the same group
as
> nagiocmd) and can execute commands without any error messages. I
checked
> all of the other directories but everything else still seems to be
owned
> by nagios:nagios :-(
> 
> Any idea what might be causing Nagios to show this old data half the
time
> and the new data the other half? Maybe I should just add apache to the
> nagios group as well and be done with it??
> 
> Thanks!
> Jeremy Martin
> Network Technician
> GSI - http://www.gsi-kc.com
> 
> 
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