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No, I just wanted to verify that was the recommended version. Thank you, this can be closed/locked.

I noticed that there is an updated version of the nagios-plugins package available, but that our Nagios XI installation (version 5.4.3, about to start testing updating to 5.4.4) is still using version 2.0.3 of the nagios-plugins package. Checked the Nagios XI source tarball for 5.4.4 and the current...

Thanks for the info. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410039 was already submitted, and the fix is already in github https://github.com/nagios-plugins/nagio ... f80cbb03c5. This thread can be closed.

In spite of all the troubleshooting performed, we were still having the regular spikes as recently as Friday afternoon. We upgraded to 5.4.0 on Friday evening. Since that time, we have not had any load spikes. So it appears that the upgrade resolved our load spikes. Monday morning, we experienced th...

You're welcome. Unfortunately, we are not the package maintainers. We are working to correct that. If you'd like a fix that yum won't break, you could install the plugins from source. There are instructions toward the bottom of https://support.nagios.com/kb/article.php?id=96 Understood. We only use ...

The check_file_age script began failing on one of our servers when check_file_age was updated to version 2.1.4 via yum update. I have isolated the failure to line 80 of the check_file_age script: 73 $opt_f = shift unless ($opt_f); 74 75 if (! $opt_f) { 76 print "FILE_AGE UNKNOWN: No file specif...

The perfdata directory ( /usr/local/nagios/share/perfdata/ ) is mounted from separate physical disks (15K) from the rest of the OS and DB. There is plenty of available RAM. The average amount of free physical memory over the past 30 days is 8670MB. The lowest amount of available free physical memory...

have you considered offloading the db? Considered that, but we try to avoid introducing new dependencies into our production monitoring environment as much as possible. Offloading the DB would introduce additional network and storage dependencies. If we were to offload the DB, could you provide gui...

Do you have a local check running for CPU on the localhost machine? If so, please apply an event handler with this as the contents and this will produce a log file which shows us the highest spiking CPU processes - CODE: SELECT ALL #!/bin/bash date=$(date) echo -e "$date" >> /tmp/checktop...

avandemore wrote:I edited my last post, but seemingly too late.

EDIT: Upon further checking that setting is fine.

No worries. After seeing your initial comment, I read up on those in the Nagios documentation, and it probably is best to leave them commented out, unless you actually recommend enabling them.