On 16 Apr 2005, sean finney wrote: >> Nothing. > > and what about in the nagios logs?
Nothing. >>> - are there any cronjobs that coincide with this? >> >> The crontab is ~100 lines long but nothing is related to Nagios >> (except the stupid script that restart it in this case). > > are there any cronjobs (even unrelated) that run around this time > though? my thought that something like a log rotation or a mysql > dump might be stealing all of some kind of resource, causing the > forks in nagios to fail. As I told you, the server is constantly loaded by all those cronjobs and daemons, the load average is between 1 and 4. Nagios should not fail in this situation. > could you post (or send privately if you prefer) your nagios.cfg? Sure, here's the config file (comment excluded): log_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.log cfg_file=/var/cache/nagios/plugins-auto.cfg cfg_file=/etc/nagios/misccommands.cfg cfg_file=/etc/nagios/contactgroups.cfg cfg_file=/etc/nagios/contacts.cfg cfg_file=/etc/nagios/dependencies.cfg cfg_file=/etc/nagios/hostgroups.cfg cfg_file=/etc/nagios/hosts.cfg cfg_file=/etc/nagios/services.cfg cfg_file=/etc/nagios/timeperiods.cfg resource_file=/etc/nagios/resource.cfg status_file=/var/log/nagios/status.log nagios_user=nagios nagios_group=nagios check_external_commands=1 command_check_interval=-1 command_file=/var/run/nagios/nagios.cmd comment_file=/var/log/nagios/comment.log downtime_file=/var/log/nagios/downtime.log lock_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.lock temp_file=/var/cache/nagios/nagios.tmp log_rotation_method=d log_archive_path=/var/log/nagios/archives use_syslog=1 log_notifications=1 log_service_retries=1 log_host_retries=1 log_event_handlers=1 log_initial_states=0 log_external_commands=1 log_passive_service_checks=1 inter_check_delay_method=s service_interleave_factor=s max_concurrent_checks=5 service_reaper_frequency=10 sleep_time=1 service_check_timeout=60 host_check_timeout=30 event_handler_timeout=30 notification_timeout=30 ocsp_timeout=5 perfdata_timeout=5 retain_state_information=1 state_retention_file=/var/cache/nagios/status.sav retention_update_interval=60 use_retained_program_state=0 interval_length=60 use_agressive_host_checking=0 execute_service_checks=1 accept_passive_service_checks=1 enable_notifications=1 enable_event_handlers=1 process_performance_data=0 obsess_over_services=0 check_for_orphaned_services=0 check_service_freshness=1 freshness_check_interval=60 aggregate_status_updates=1 status_update_interval=15 enable_flap_detection=0 low_service_flap_threshold=5.0 high_service_flap_threshold=20.0 low_host_flap_threshold=5.0 high_host_flap_threshold=20.0 date_format=us illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()= illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<> admin_email=nagios admin_pager=pagenagios This is mainly the default configuration file. -- Cyril Bouthors
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