On 21 April 2011 01:51, Samuel Kidman <samuel.kid...@panres.com> wrote: > Hello > > I've got this in my logs: > > > [1303346647] Warning: The results of service 'Dummy Service' on host > 'LFMISS1' are stale by 0d 0h 1m 0s (threshold=0d 0h 5m 0s). I'm forcing > an immediate check of the service. > [1303346647] Warning: The results of service 'Dummy Service' on host > 'PR-LNM-BCMF01' are stale by 0d 0h 1m 0s (threshold=0d 0h 5m 0s). I'm > forcing an immediate check of the service. > [1303346647] Warning: The results of service 'Dummy Service' on host > 'PR-LNM-BW-AV01' are stale by 0d 0h 1m 0s (threshold=0d 0h 5m 0s). I'm > forcing an immediate check of the service. > > > Why is Nagios forcing an active check before the freshness threshold > runs out?
I've been seeing something that looks similar to that. An example in my log is: [1303254000] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: xxxxxx;BACKUP;OK;HARD;1;backup_app: Completed with no errors. ... [1303284031] Warning: The results of service 'BACKUP' on host 'xxxxxx' are stale by 0d 0h 0m 52s (threshold=1d 2h 0m 0s). I'm forcing an immediate check of the service. In my case, it seems Nagios thought the service was stale only 8 hours or so after the previous passive check, whereas the freshness threshold for this service is 93600 (26 hours). I'm not sure why, then, the warning message says it's stale by only 52s. One thing I have done recently is to move the status.dat file from its usual location to a ramdisk. This has improved performance in the web front end, but the web front end occasionally loses sight of the services. I wonder if the freshness checking also reads status.dat and is having similar problems? I expect I might have to back out the change and move status.dat back to its original location on the ext3 filesystem. Out of interest, have you moved any of your Nagios files to a ramdisk? I notice the Nagios documentation no longer makes any mention of moving files to ramdisk to improve performance (if it ever did - I can't seem to find the Nagios 2 documentation online any more). If anyone can shed any light on this I'd appreciate it. For the record I'm using Nagios Core 3.2.3 on Ubuntu 08.04.01 LTS Server, installed from tarballs, not packages. Cheers, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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