host check critical, even though host came back up..?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Daniel maher wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> I'm running Nagios 2.0b1 (I know, upgrade, blah) on Debian Woody
> (self-compiled, as the Debian package is still in 1.x), and I'm
> experiencing a bit of an annoying problem.  I had a server go down
> this weekend, and unfortunately, the two people who get notified
> about it were both indisposed.  The server came back up on its own a
> few hours later, but the Host Check (check_icmp) kept showing as
> critical.  So this morning when I got in to work, I had a few hundred
> critical host warnings for a server that was clearly operational.
> After acknowledging the problem, then forcing a re-check manually, it
> game back green.
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas why the Host Check kept failing, even though the server was
> up?
> 

Did you try running the hostcheck manually? If so, what did it return? 
If it worked out ok, you've found a bug in nagios and should try 
upgrading to get rid of it.

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


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