Critical GUI components inaccessible!

[cwscribner]

Hi all.

I have a major problem. I cannot access anything under the Configuration or Admin sections of XI. All they do is hang. I've tried restarting Nagios and repairing the database but I'm still having the same problem. I need a fix for this as soon as possible!

Edit: I recently upgraded to R6 on a CentOS 5 server. This problem started occurring after I tried writing the config data. Will re-running the upgrade script fix this?

[cwscribner]

So things are magically working now. I logged out for about 15m then logged back in to find everything working. Any ideas why this happened?

[nscott]

Perhaps a scheduled backup or cron was hitting at that exact time? Large disk operations can be scheduled like that will make the interface terribly sluggish. You can check using the crontab -e (note you will have to check the crontab of each user [apache, root, nagios] using the -u flag.

[cwscribner]

Is there a way to suspend the cron for a period of time? I've been adding devices for several days so a cron once an hour would explain the deathly slow interface.

[lmiltchev]

You can probably try running a script. I found this link, which may be useful to you:

http://www.unix.com/shell-programming-s ... ontab.html

I haven't tested it, so you have to run it at your own risk or you can use it just to get some ideas, so you can write your own script.