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my Nagios core 4.3.4 is crazy
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:45 am
by mesobranlaspalabras
Hello,
Sometimes Nagios sends us false alarms about the previous configuration. For example, I changed the ssh port in two servers, and changed the configuration in my nagios, but sometimes it appears alarms in the ssh service
I deleted nagios.cache and nagios.precache and I restart the service, but the problem persists.
Has anyone suffered the same problem?
Thanks in advance,
Re: my Nagios core 4.3.4 is crazy
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:16 pm
by tmcdonald
Sometimes this can happen if you have multiple Core processes running, often the result of an improper shutdown. Please run the following commands and post the output:
ps -ef | grep bin/nagios
Re: my Nagios core 4.3.4 is crazy
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:26 am
by mesobranlaspalabras
Good morning,
Thanks for replying
I executed the command and this is the results
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[root@SrvNagiosCore1 ~]# ps -ef | grep bin/nagios
nagios 8497 1 0 Mar16 ? 00:02:20 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 8499 8497 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:10 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8500 8497 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:10 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8501 8497 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:10 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8502 8497 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:10 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8503 8497 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:10 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8506 8497 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:10 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8507 8497 0 Mar16 ? 00:00:13 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 8607 1 0 Feb14 ? 00:32:36 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 8609 8607 0 Feb14 ? 00:02:24 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8610 8607 0 Feb14 ? 00:02:23 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8611 8607 0 Feb14 ? 00:02:25 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8612 8607 0 Feb14 ? 00:02:23 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8613 8607 0 Feb14 ? 00:02:28 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8614 8607 0 Feb14 ? 00:02:25 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 8615 8607 0 Feb14 ? 00:03:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
root 26748 26572 0 10:18 pts/0 00:00:00 grep bin/nagios
thanks in advance,
Re: my Nagios core 4.3.4 is crazy
Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:35 am
by tmcdonald
Definitely multiple competing processes. Please run the following and post the output:
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service nagios stop
killall nagios
service nagios start
We have a KB article that goes over one of the issues that multiple processes can cause:
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/n ... ts-27.html
Particularly the "Possible Causes" section shows what a good output should look like.
Re: my Nagios core 4.3.4 is crazy
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:04 am
by mesobranlaspalabras
Hi,
Thank you very much for the help. Now Nagios works correctly.
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[root@SrvNagiosCore1 ~]# ps -ef | head -1 && ps -ef | grep bin/nagios
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
nagios 6858 1 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios 6860 6858 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 6861 6858 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 6862 6858 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 6863 6858 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 6864 6858 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 6865 6858 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios --worker /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.qh
nagios 6866 6858 0 09:45 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
root 7775 6132 0 09:55 pts/0 00:00:00 grep bin/nagios

Thanks again.
Re: my Nagios core 4.3.4 is crazy
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 9:02 am
by tmcdonald
Glad to hear it! I'll be closing this up now, but feel free to open another thread if you need anything in the future!