A question...cascading failures and failure to recover

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Steven Schwartz wrote:

> I've noticed an odd circumstance on two of my four nagios servers
> lately, and searching has found me no answers. Has anyone experienced
> symptoms similar to these:
>
> 1) On a given server, a plugin produces a "critical failure" on many
> (sometimes all) of the systems using that particular plugin.
>
> 2) Tests by hand of said plugin produce an "OK" result.
>
> 3) The system does not acknowledge the service having recovered until
> checks are rescheduled by force, and then execute OK.

Rea the threads on issues where people are staring at the OK prompt where 
they should heve been investigating the numerical result of the plugin. As 
that is what Nagios cares about.

Hugo.

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