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Hi All, I have NRPE and Nagios Plugins running on remote servers. Everything is functioning fine, but every now and then (seems random) I will notice service connection errors from Nagios XI. The problem is that the owner of the /usr/local/nagios AND /usr/local/nagios/libexec folder changes to 34806...

Thanks Slansing,

I reset the nagios.cfg perfdata file options to the defaults you posted and the graphs are working now.

Thanks for clarifying the rrd files. I just looked up how to view data from them as well and this seems to work.

Regards,
Phil

Thanks Scott, I'm going to change my configuration back to the default and see if the graphs will continue to work. Can you clarify a few things based on our discussion: 1.So the graphs are dependent on performance data? i.e. If I only enable service performance data for particular services, does th...

The performance file data processing has never worked properly (the files disappear). For the graphs, on Friday I was doing some modifications to get the performance data files to work. If the graphs are dependent on the performance data files it is possible that I could have changed something. Whic...

Hey Guys, I just got perfdata working so I'm logging 3 server loads. The /var/service-perfdata file is looking good. I've changed the format around a little as well. I've been having trouble trying to process the perfdata files. I've tried using process-service-perfdata-file-bulk and process-service...

Wow, you would think I would have enough intuition to do that, whoops........ Thanks!

Mguthrie, Thanks for your response. For the meantime, I stumbled upon Nagios Performance Data which might help me in the meantime for getting a log file with metrics. I will see if that helps. *(http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/perfdata.html). With regards to the graphs, I only see Performance...

We started on a fresh server and successfully installed.

My manager would like to get more out of the log files. We would like to display all status (OK, Warning, Critical) at every interval they are checked. So far it seems that the log file will only show W and C states. I configured an hourly log rotation which will show every hour all initial states (...

Nagios XI offers many more options with regards to displays. This will work as our solutions.