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I tried changing to the default. the /usr/local/nagios/var directory did not exist, so I created that first. I'm still getting the same errors, although for the new directory: [1429216244] Warning: File '/usr/local/nagios/var/host-perfdata' could not be opened - host performance data will not be wri...

Yep that makes sense. I will give that a shot and update later. Thanks!

Nothing was found in find, so the directories must not exist anymore. Can I just create them as standard directories?

You're right that is unusual to write to /dev. I'm not sure why it was setup like that. I see it in the config: host_perfdata_file=/dev/shm/host-perfdata service_perfdata_file=/dev/shm/service-perfdata I'm not very familiar with what shm is. Is it as simple as creating a directory, changing permissi...

Forgot to add that verification of config files show 0 warnings and 0 errors.

Hello. I have an instance of Nagios Core that was inherited by my team a couple of years ago. It has been working fine until this week. Yesterday there were alerts going out for a service that did not appear to exist in the web UI, but it was found in the configs. That particular service wasn't real...

This is all I am able to catch, there may be more: The HTTP request issued a violation to the current active policy. [SECEV] Request violations: HTTP protocol compliance failed. HTTP protocol compliance sub violations: POST request with Content-Length: 0. Evasion techniques sub violations: N/A. Web ...

I have a couple of service checks that have multiple hosts per check. Occasionally I will receive a notification where the entire body of the email is blank. So far I have only seen this happen on two different hosts which were being monitored on two different instance of XI (both running Nagios XI ...

I have a couple services that I set the notification interval to 0 along with the service template also set to 0, but I am getting repeated notificaitons from the services. Here's the service checks: define service { service_description TCP Port 15672 RabbitMQ Admin use GHS Default Services hostgrou...

Is there a way to change the ranges of graphs after they are applied to a dashboard? Similar to the way Pnp4Nagios lets you switch between 4 hours, 24 hours, etc...

I'm currently using Nagios XI 2014R1.4.