Nagios status log stale?

[Xueshan Feng]

Quoting Xueshan Feng <sfeng at Stanford.EDU>:

>
> I started using master/slave nagios server setup a few days ago.
> Initially
> I set up aging threshold to 5 minutes, then slave would take over too
> often.
> Now I set the threshold to 20 minutes, occasionally the test still fail:
>
> NAGIOS WARNING: 13 processes, status log updated 1308 seconds ago
>
> And 5 minutes later the check will be happy again because the log was
> updated. I was wondering which log check_nagios checks? status.dat, or
> nagios.log?

I think I figured out this one. The nagios log only changes if there is a
host/service problem or a recovery of a previous problem.

So it is normal if nagios log doesn't change if no news.

Xueshan
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