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Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 5:40 am
by Narie
Hi,
We are using the Nagios XI appliance with version 5.2.1. We have deleted 2 hosts, and its services, but we're still receiving emails regarding these hosts and services. According to the CCM everything is deleted regarding these hosts and services. How can we permanently get rid of these messages?
Thanks
Re: Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:13 am
by tmcdonald
Did you make sure to click Apply Configuration after?
Re: Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 11:51 am
by Narie
Yep, applied configuration several times. Also restarted MySQL/Postgresql/Nagios/NagiosXI/httpd services. Just to clarify, I removed the services, as well as the hosts from the CCM, so they've disappeared from the CCM. However, when I search for the specific host/services I can still find them. And also alerts are still being emailed as well.
Re: Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 11:52 am
by tmcdonald
Most often this is due to multiple parent nagios processes. Check how many you have with ps -ef | grep bin/nagios and post the results.
Re: Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 10:54 pm
by Narie
tmcdonald wrote:Most often this is due to multiple parent nagios processes. Check how many you have with ps -ef | grep bin/nagios and post the results.
Thanks for your spot-on answer! I could see there were multiple processen, and ended up with hundreds of false service warning last night. After a reboot of the server all errors, and double processes were gone.

Re: Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 8:18 am
by Narie
Today I had the same situation again. After shutting down Nagios/NagiosXI, I also had to killall remaining nagios processes. After this I could start Nagios again.
Question: What could cause this problem, i.e. running multiple instances of Nagios server?
Re: Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 2:09 pm
by lmiltchev
Question: What could cause this problem, i.e. running multiple instances of Nagios server?
It is hard to say without looking at your profile. If opening an email support ticket in our system is an option for you, please email the profile.zip to
[email protected].
Admin->System Profile->Download Profile
Re: Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 2:54 am
by Narie
lmiltchev wrote:Question: What could cause this problem, i.e. running multiple instances of Nagios server?
It is hard to say without looking at your profile. If opening an email support ticket in our system is an option for you, please email the profile.zip to
[email protected].
Admin->System Profile->Download Profile
Is there a more secure way to send the profile?
Re: Remove zombie host/service
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:12 am
by Box293
You could place it on a dropbox and provide us with the link.