normal_check_interval misbehaving?

[Marc Powell]

On Feb 6, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Jason Marshall wrote:

> Hi all, I've been scratching my head on this one for a couple days.
>
> I have a service defined that can only run once an hour.  If it runs  
> much
> more often than that, the check program (which I didn't write) often  
> steps
> on its own feet and returns a critical failure.  The service runs  
> via NRPE
> if that matters...
>
> Anyway, I have the normal_check_interval set to 60, and  
> max_check_attempts
> set to 1.  So it should run once an hour, and only once even if it  
> fails.
> But it runs every 10 minutes instead!
>
> Here is some of my config:
>
> define service {
>         use                     active-service
>         host_name               cal-map1
>         service_description     active-remote-spatialsync
>         check_command           check_remote_spatialsync
>         contact_groups          xxxxxxxx
>         normal_check_interval   60
>         max_check_attempts      1
> }

[chop]

> The wrapper that runs on the remote machine is logging the output of  
> the
> date command and appending it to a simple log file so I can tell for  
> sure
> how often it's being run -- every 10 minutes, like clockwork!
>
> How come 10 minutes and not 60??
>
> My head is hurting from all the scratching.  I suspect it's something
> stupid and tiny that I've missed, but would appreciate your help,  
> even if
> it just points to some arcane area of the documentation.

Did it used to be 10 minutes? The config, as you've detailed it, is  
correct. I suspect you have multiple nagios daemons running at the  
same time, one with a 10 minute interval and one with the 60 minute  
interval. Do you, at times about 60 minutes apart, have two that are  
logged close to one another? I would stop nagios and use ps to verify  
that there isn't another hanging about.

--
Marc


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