orphaned services

[jssingh]

Hi,

I'm having problems with some of the systems that we are monitoring via nrpe. Apparently xinetd has an issue, but also nagios is sending way too many requests to the machines. On one of our systems the logs show that nagios sent over 100 service checks in less than a minute. But we only have 39 service checks on that system, so that didn't make any sense at all. I looked in the nagios logs and saw a bunch of these lines in there:

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Warning: The check of service 'service_name' on host 'host' looks like it was orphaned (results never came back).  I'm scheduling an immediate check of the service...

And since the xinetd problem seems to be because there were too many requests, this was just compounding the situation. I looked into turning of check_for_orphaned_services in nagios.cfg, but the documentation made it sound like that was a bad thing, so now I'm not sure what to do.

Has anyone else run into this? Any suggestions? Also, I'm not completely sure what an orphaned service is. How is it different from a service that timed out?

thanks,
-janice

[slansing]

I would take a look at this page, it is based on nagiosxi but it applies to core which runs in the backend:

http://support.nagios.com/wiki/index.ph ... g_Orphaned