Hello. I'm running Nagios 2.9 with Nagiosgraph 0.8.2. This combination has worked well for us for a while now.
I've found that recently the graphs (really the rrd files) have not been being updated. Looking further into the issue, I'm seeing the following in our nagios.log file: Warning: Service performance data file processing command '/usr/local/nagios/nagiosgraph/insert.pl' timed out after 5 seconds Now if I run nagiosgraph's insert.pl by hand it takes almost 5 minutes to complete, but it does run and does update all the rrd files. My perdata file has grown rather large: $ wc -l perfdata.log 817880 perfdata.log I see that my nagios.cfg file sets "perfdata_timeout=5" and that's probably where the timeout comes from. I also see that the process-service-perfdata command is set to run every 30 seconds. I like keeping the historical data, but I guess that would mean my perdata file would grow infinitely large. I don't see any option in nagios.cfg that controls how much data stays in the perfdata.log file (i.e. a retention interval for data contained therein). Maybe I missed it somewhere. So it's starting to seem like I should trim this file somehow myself, but I'm not sure how to go about that. What's odd is that Nagios did this processing for me fine up until yesterday. I have not added any new hosts since yesterday. I can't imagine that this ran anywhere near 5 seconds prior to yesterday but it still worked. My config file is the same. However, I did upgrade to Nagios 2.9 yesterday. How do others handle the size of this log file? Thanks Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
