thanks (misery loves company) and that brings up another n00b question: is there a search page to scan the nagios-users archives? I didn't see one mentioned in the welcome letter or the the subscriptions page (but I was under sysadmin duress and may have missed it) <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Andreas Ericsson <<a href="mailto:ae@op5.se">ae@op5.se</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On 03/07/2011 02:44 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: > ok, I don't know about Monday per se </div>Mondays are just evil. They always have been and always will be. <div class="im"> > but we have this very annoying > behaviour that has emerged with Nagios 3.0.6 (current package under Debian > GNU/Linux 5.0) where the Next Scheduled Check will spontaneously be set to a > time one year and one day from the previous check > > Next Scheduled Check: 2012-01-06 10:09:49 > there does not appear to be any logical cause other than the time when the > alert was defined; some time ago we split one of our alerts into two so as > to assign different timeperiods to each, and now we find that when this bug > happens it frequently (but not always) happens to these alerts, but today it > also happened to another alert that does not use our added timeperiods. > > I did a google hunt for the symptom and only found a tip to ensure we do not > have two instances of Nagios running at once; we do not. I also removed the > new timeperiods from the check_period and notification_period in the service > definitions, but here today the problem persists and of course we notice it > when a critical alert is reported to us by our clients and not by our > service monitor :( > > Has anyone else experienced this? > </div>Yes. It's a known issue that I *think* is solved in 3.2.3. It was discussed quite a lot a few months ago anyways. -- Andreas Ericsson <a href="mailto:andreas.ericsson@op5.se">andreas.ericsson@op5.se</a> OP5 AB <a href="http://www.op5.se" target="_blank">www.op5.se</a> Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. </blockquote></div> -- <div style="text-align:right">Have Blog, Will Travel: <a href="http://blog.teledyn.com" target="_blank">blog.teledyn.com</a></div> <div style="text-align:right">A Serviceable Substitute: <a href="http://post.teledyn.com" target="_blank">post.teledyn.com</a></div>