unable to view service detail

[Andreas Ericsson]

Kevin Kerns wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having a rather peculiar problem with nagios. When I start nagios 
> and try to view the Service Detail it says that I do not have permission 
> to view information about any of the services. However, after I click on 
> the refresh button several times the page comes up correctly. This 
> problem persists every time I try to come back and view the services.
> 
> Also, when I view the Host Detail page I get information from an old 
> configuration I had when I was first experimenting with nagios (about a 
> month ago). This configuration file no longer exists, however.
> 
> I noticed that whenever I start Nagios, at least two Nagios daemons are 
> spawned. I don't know if this is supposed to happen or not, but the web 
> interface behaves as if there could be interference from multiple 
> instances of Nagios.
> 

Then you probably have (at least if you're running nagios 1.x).

> If anyone has experienced a problem similar to this, or has any idea 
> about what could be wrong, I would greatly appreciate your input.
> 

The multiple-instance problem is a dear old favourite on this list.

killall -9 nagios (NOT on solaris!)
(wait 5-10 secs)
start nagios the normal way.

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


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