Configuration changes not taking effect after restart of Nagios

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 04/24/2013 12:38 PM, Deborah Martin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Nagios 3.4.4 on SLES 11 SP2. This has been running for
> around two months.
>
> Recently I needed to change the configuration for a service
> escalation to remove a contact group that would get sms alerts. I
> restarted Nagios and everything ran fine.
>
> However, it's been reported that recently, the team that shouldn't be
> getting the sms alerts are still getting them. When I look at the
> Configuration for service escalations, I can now see two entries for
> the same escalation, one which is the new , with the sms contact
> group removed and one with the old config which has the sms contact
> group included. But when I look at the actual .cfg file for the
> service escalation definition, there is not mention of the sms group
> anymore. I've checked, and re-checked and still I can't see why this
> has happened.
>

There are three separate sensible explanations for that.

You have, at some time in the past, created an objects.precache file and
Nagios is restarted with being asked to use the precached file.

Something regenerates the configuration behind your back, overwriting
your changes.

A separate Nagios process is running, triggering alerts for the faulty
team while the restarted Nagios ticks on just fine.

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