<div>I sent the reload command and basically nagios is now telling me 30 hosts are down and that number is increasing? This is a problem. why does this happen? And back to my original issue, nagios itself is still showing down. I modified the command as you suggested, how do I verify that? </div> <div> </div> <div>This is all good stuff as once I catch the learning curve here and get these things ironed out, it'll be nice. </div> <div>On 8/2/06, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">These could be normal. Nagios will spawn a child process to manage each check. What you're interested in is if there are multiple nagios process with a parent PID of 1. ps -ef usually shows child/parent PIDS. If you stop nagios and see none remaining then you don't have multiple daemons running. As far as reloading config, a HUP to the parent process or calling '/etc/init.d/nagios reload' is sufficient. -- Marc > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin Craig [mailto:<a href="mailto:jrcraig.email@gmail.com">jrcraig.email@gmail.com</a>] > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:10 PM > To: Marc Powell > Cc: Nagios Users Mailinglist > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Warning threshold must be float or float > triplet! > > okay i modified checkcommands.cfg to reflect what you noted here. I also > did a ps axu | grep nagios and AGAIN there are multiple instances > running. here is the output: > > > nagios 6155 0.0 0.0 1700 536 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/ping - > n -U -w 10 -c 5 <a href="http://204.64.105.21">204.64.105.21</a> > nagios 6157 0.0 0.2 23900 1464 ? S 11:57 0:00 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg > nagios 6158 0.5 0.1 5612 1036 ? S 11:57 0:00 > /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H <a href="http://192.168.146.5">192.168.146.5</a> -w 100.0,20% -c > 500.0,60% -p 5 > nagios 6160 0.0 0.0 1700 540 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/ping - > n -U -w 10 -c 5 <a href="http://192.168.170.5">192.168.170.5</a> > nagios 6161 0.0 0.2 23900 1464 ? S 11:57 0:00 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg > nagios 6162 0.5 0.1 5612 1036 ? S 11:57 0:00 > /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H <a href="http://204.64.191.5">204.64.191.5</a> -w 100.0,20% -c > 500.0,60% -p 5 > nagios 6163 0.0 0.0 1700 536 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/ping - > n -U -w 10 -c 5 <a href="http://192.168.146.5">192.168.146.5</a> > nagios 6164 0.0 0.0 1700 544 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/ping - > n -U -w 10 -c 5 <a href="http://204.64.191.5">204.64.191.5</a> > root 6166 0.0 0.1 3720 676 pts/2 R+ 11:57 0:00 grep nagios > nagios 6155 0.0 0.0 1700 536 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/ping - > n -U -w 10 -c 5 <a href="http://204.64.105.21">204.64.105.21</a> > nagios 6157 0.0 0.2 23900 1464 ? S 11:57 0:00 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg > nagios 6158 0.5 0.1 5612 1036 ? S 11:57 0:00 > /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H <a href="http://192.168.146.5">192.168.146.5</a> -w 100.0,20% -c > 500.0,60% -p 5 > nagios 6160 0.0 0.0 1700 540 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/ping - > n -U -w 10 -c 5 <a href="http://192.168.170.5">192.168.170.5</a> > nagios 6161 0.0 0.2 23900 1464 ? S 11:57 0:00 > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg > nagios 6162 0.5 0.1 5612 1036 ? S 11:57 0:00 > /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H <a href="http://204.64.191.5">204.64.191.5</a> -w 100.0,20% -c > 500.0,60% -p 5 > nagios 6163 0.0 0.0 1700 536 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/ping - > n -U -w 10 -c 5 <a href="http://192.168.146.5">192.168.146.5</a> > nagios 6164 0.0 0.0 1700 544 ? S 11:57 0:00 /bin/ping - > n -U -w 10 -c 5 <a href="http://204.64.191.5">204.64.191.5</a> > root 6166 0.0 0.1 3720 676 pts/2 R+ 11:57 0:00 grep nagios > > When stopping Nagios, I typically issue a /etc/rc.d/init.d stop and then > verify there are none running. I also use Kill -HUP since I normally > start nagios as a daemon with the -d. Is this the correct process? > Further, what is best practices after adding a host to refresh Nagio to > pick up that host without reflecting undetermined availability for the > rest of the hosts or causing any problems? > > On 8/2/06, Marc Powell <<a href="mailto:marc@ena.com">marc@ena.com </a>> wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Justin Craig [mailto: <a href="mailto:jrcraig.email@gmail.com">jrcraig.email@gmail.com</a> > <mailto: <a href="mailto:jrcraig.email@gmail.com">jrcraig.email@gmail.com</a>> ] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:38 AM > > To: Marc Powell > > Cc: Nagios Users Mailinglist > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Warning threshold must be float or > float > > triplet! > > > > In my checkcommands.cfg for this host in question, I have: > > > > > > # 'check_local_load' command definition > > define command{ > > command_name check_local_load > > command_line $USER1$/check_load -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ > > } > > > > Yes, that looks good. I'd -- > - verify that nagios was reloaded after creating this command > definition > - verify that there aren't multiple nagios daemons running > (stop; kill; start) > - verify that nagios is executing the command I think is. > Modify > command_line to be the following then check the contents of > /tmp/nagios > -- > command_line /bin/echo "$USER1$/check_load -w $ARG1$ > -c > $ARG2$" >> /tmp/nagios > > -- > Marc > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net"> nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>> > [mailto:<a href="mailto:nagios-">nagios-</a> > > users- > > > <a href="mailto:bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">bounces@lists.sourceforge.net </a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</a>> ] On Behalf Of Justin Craig > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:41 PM > > [chop] > > > > check_command > > > check_local_load!5.0,4.0,3.0!10.0,6.0,4.0 > > > } > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. 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