Lot of nsca process

[sigmainformatique]

Hi Nagios team,

Just noticed a large amount of nsca processes on my NXI server :
# ps -ef |grep nsca |wc -l
597



nagios 125766 66537 0 Feb04 ? 00:00:00 nsca -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nsca.cfg --inetd

We have a large amount of NSCA traps, but Is it normal to have so many processes? why some are one day old?


Regards
Guillaume
Xinted configuration file :

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# default: on
# description: NSCA (Nagios Service Check Acceptor)
service nsca
{
        flags           = REUSE
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = nagios
        group           = nagios
        server          = /usr/local/nagios/bin/nsca
        server_args     = -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/nsca.cfg --inetd
        log_on_failure  += USERID
        #Ajoute car les evts viennent tous du F5 : une seule source
        per_source = 1000
        instances  = 1000
        disable         = no
}
#only_from       = 127.0.0.1

[benjaminsmith]

Hi Guillaume,

Have you noticed any other problems when did this start happening? Please send us your system profile and we'll review the logs. Thank you.

To send us your system profile.
Login to the Nagios XI GUI using a web browser
Click the "Admin" > "System Profile" Menu
Click the "Download Profile" button
Save the profile.zip file and share this in a private message and then reply to this post to bring it up in the queue.

It would also help to turn on NSCA debugging and examine that log file as well. We have a guide on how to enable this and which log file to check in the article below.

NSCA Server Debug Logging