Nagios Support Forum

Thanks for your reply. /var/lib/nagios is is owned by nagios user and was fully writeable. Very strangely things started to work after letting run nagios for some time ... the retention.dat got created. I understand there is the parameter which says how often the retention.dat is written during runt...

Hi, I just upgraded to Debian buster with nagios4. Suddenly everything is PENDING when I restart nagios. Super annoying. My config has (Debian defaults): retain_state_information=1 state_retention_file=/var/lib/nagios4/retention.dat But /var/lib/nagios4/retention.dat is never created! Do I miss anyt...

OH MY GOD WHAT A PROBLEM!!

I have a single SSL domain and signed in with http auth for a different service. This wrong credentials were sent to nagios!

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I know these 'lame' messages are irritating. But to make sure I removed all servicedependency objects from my config file. No lame messages any more. But the problem is exactly the same! Only 2 hosts in the webinterface! Log output is now exactly the same except the for the lame servicedependency Th...

Thanks! The log output is not essentially different from the part I posted (I sent a copy via PM). I just want to add yet another curiosity: I am getting notifications for one host which is not showing up in the web interface: ***** Nagios ***** Notification Type: PROBLEM Service: PING Host: Interne...

Also regarding the "lame services": I need to re-emphasize that this setup always worked for maybe 5 years now. Still it might be that something is wrong here causing nagios3 just having problems with this config now for some reason? In any case, I just don't see any issue ... So all "...

Thanks, Yes, I am the one with access to the server (it's my private machine). I have no version management. I think I haven't changed anything in my configuration for 1 or 2 years. It just worked. Of course, the process is "regularly" restarted. Yesterday, it still worked but suddenly, wi...

Hey all, I just needed to rub my eyes in disbelief. I have nagios3 running ob Debian for 7 years without any problems! Today, SUDDENLY without doing anything, nagios shows only 2 hosts and its services. The others are visible when I select "View Host Status Detail For All Host Groups" and ...