I appreciate the response, but this is not the issue (verified by running "SHOW 
STATUS", which shows the "Threads_connected" counter).  MySQL has a parameter 
called "max_connect_errors" that defaults to ten.  If a host reaches the value 
of "max_connect_errors" then MySQL will drop further connections from that host 
without allowing authentication.

Essentially the "max_connect_errors" parameter exists to keep malfunctioning 
clients from causing more harm to a MySQL server.  When Zenoss connects to a 
MySQL server and disconnects it is seen as a malfunctioning client.  MySQL does 
the right thing and drops future connections from that host.

This should only cause problems if the server on which Zenoss is running would 
need to connect to the MySQL server for some reason other than monitoring.  
Even after "max_connect_errors" is reached, a connection to the MySQL server 
works; it is just dropped immediately.  So as far as Zenoss is concerned MySQL 
is still up and running.  But if any other process on the same server needed to 
connect to the MySQL server it would not be able to.

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Mike




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