<div>Hi Mark,</div>
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<div>Thanks for the response. I just realized that I've opened the old templates.cfg file (apologies, im an 1d1ot).</div>
<div>My freshness_treshhold is actually 600 (10mins), but still im seeing this issue.</div>
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<div>template.cfg snippet</div>
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<div>define service{<br> name e_passive<br> active_checks_enabled 0<br> passive_checks_enabled 1<br> parallelize_check 0<br> obsess_over_service 0<br>
check_freshness 1<br> freshness_threshold 600<br> check_command check_stale_passive<br> notifications_enabled 1<br> event_handler_enabled 0<br>
flap_detection_enabled 1<br> failure_prediction_enabled 0<br> process_perf_data 0<br> retain_status_information 1<br> retain_nonstatus_information 1<br>
is_volatile 0<br> check_period e_reboots<br> max_check_attempts 1<br> normal_check_interval 1<br> retry_check_interval 1<br>
contact_groups e_server_team<br> notification_options c<br> notification_interval 0<br> notification_period e_reboots<br> register 0<br>
}<br></div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Marc<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Mark Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:myoung@nagios.org">myoung@nagios.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Nov 16, 2008, at 9:16 PM, Marc Ismael wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi all,<br><br>I have 7426 incoming passive checks on my nagios server. I turned on freshness check at every 60 seconds, check_result_reaper_frequency at 60 and max_check_result_reaper_time at 90. I am getting a lot of stale passive results. Anything off with these settings, or the rest of my config settings?<br>
</blockquote><br><br></div>You have some interesting choices with your settings. If you have the freshness and the reaper_frequency set to the same time of 60 seconds.The freshness threshold is the time in which Nagios should consider a check to be stale. This is done by looking at the last check's timestamp and comparing it to the threshold you set (60 seconds). While the reaper_frequency is the frequency in which Nagios will take all the collected passive results and process them, which you also have set at 60 seconds. You are setting up a condition where most of your checks are running close to stale and, given any processing time, with give you many stale results.<br>
<br>Depending on your how powerful your system is, you will need to either increase your freshness threshold (try 300 seconds), decrease the reaper frequency, or do both. You may have to play around with the exact settings that will work with your system and the number of checks you are performing. I would recommend you start with increasing the freshness threshold.<br>
<br>Good Luck!<br><font color="#888888"><br>Mark Young<br>___<br>Nagios Enterprises, LLC<br>Web: <a href="http://www.nagios.com/" target="_blank">www.nagios.com</a><br></font></blockquote></div><br>