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braindope
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Nagios restart

Post by braindope »

Hi,

I have a problem regarding on my nagios. The thing is when I restart my nagios nothing happen, but it say
Nagios Stopping [OK]
Nagios Starting [OK]
for example i added new host at its services, pre-flight check has no error, but when i restart nagios the newly added host is missing. My work around for this is, I have to manually stop nagios then start it, and I have to issue a pre-flight check using -d instead of -v ,for my newly added host to be seen on my web.

Can this be fixed?. I want the my nagios to normally restart just like before. :oops:
tmcdonald
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Re: Nagios restart

Post by tmcdonald »

What OS and version is Nagios running on, and what version of Nagios is being used?

How many nagios processes do you have? ps -ef | grep bin/nagios
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braindope
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Re: Nagios restart

Post by braindope »

Hi tmcdonald,

Two of my Nagios are having the same problem, please see below details, thanks!

CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
Nagios Core 3.4.1
# ps -ef | grep bin/nagios
nagios 14297 17915 0 18:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 17895 1 0 13:04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
nagios 17915 1 0 13:04 ? 00:00:43 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 18727 17915 0 19:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 18729 17915 0 19:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 18731 17915 0 19:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 18819 17915 0 19:15 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
root 18825 18786 0 19:15 pts/2 00:00:00 grep bin/nagios

CentOS release 5.8 (Final)
Nagios Core 3.3.1
# ps -ef | grep bin/nagios
nagios 4279 1 0 19:16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4282 1 0 19:16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4285 1 0 19:16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4293 1 0 19:16 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4337 1 0 19:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4340 1 0 19:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4343 1 0 19:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4346 1 0 19:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4381 1 0 19:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 4388 1 0 19:17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
root 4394 4351 0 19:17 pts/0 00:00:00 grep bin/nagios
nagios 9889 1 0 Aug21 ? 00:00:44 /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
nagios 9895 1 1 Aug21 ? 01:33:07 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
jdalrymple
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Re: Nagios restart

Post by jdalrymple »

Problem on the first host:
braindope wrote:nagios 17895 1 0 13:04 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
nagios 17915 1 0 13:04 ? 00:00:43 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Problem on the second host:
braindope wrote:nagios 9889 1 0 Aug21 ? 00:00:44 /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
nagios 9895 1 1 Aug21 ? 01:33:07 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Hard for us to say what your init script is doing, but definitely having 2 Nagios installed and running isn't doing you any favors.
braindope
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Re: Nagios restart

Post by braindope »

Hi ,

When I restart my nagios, below process is running and no output from my nagios web, process is not populating :(

nagios 9889 1 0 Aug21 ? 00:00:44 /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

But when i execute this...

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

My nagios functions normal. What can I do about this?. I don't remember installing 2 nagios on my instance.
jdalrymple
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Re: Nagios restart

Post by jdalrymple »

braindope wrote:When I restart my nagios
I assume you mean with something like `service nagios restart` - probably you just need to tweak your init script. The part in mine that does the deciding of where to start Nagios from is as follows:

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# Our install-time configuration.
prefix=/usr/local/nagios
exec_prefix=${prefix}
NagiosBin=${exec_prefix}/bin/nagios
NagiosCfgFile=${prefix}/etc/nagios.cfg
If yours is similar adjust to suit your needs. If not you can post yours here and we'll try to help out.
braindope wrote:I don't remember installing 2 nagios on my instance.
Seems like you definitely have 2 - we don't remember how they got there either :)
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