It sounds like your script is running at exactly the time that Nagios rotates the log files. You might try running it every 10 minutes starting at 5 minutes past the hour and see if that helps.
-- Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ku.edu/home/sloane Phone:(785)864-0444 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Hari Sekhon > Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 3:20 AM > To: Nagios Users mailinglist > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios not running every midnight > > > Hi all, > > I've got a weird thing that I've noticed. I have an external > script to > use the check_nagios plugin to make sure nagios itself is running. I > have this cronned to run every 10 minutes and if nagios is > found to not > be running then I get an email warning me of this. > > The problem I'm having is that every single night at midnight > exactly I > always get an email saying that nagios is not running, the > explanation > being the output of the plugin as follows: > > NAGIOS CRITICAL: Cannot parse Nagios log file for valid time > > > > This is followed by several Recovery Alert emails for a > handful of the > 112 services I currently monitor reporting that the service > is ok. This > is strange because I never received any Alert emails that the > services > were down. I suspect there is nothing wrong with the services > at all but > this is a nagios quirk or some bug in my configuration or the > way I am > doing things. > > This occurs every single night. I am running nagios 2.5 with > nagios-plugins 1.4.3. > > Any ideas what I can do about this? > > -h > > -- > Hari Sekhon > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the > chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through > brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge &CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
