Nagios XI generating lots of files using high inodes

[Endeavour Energy]

Hi,

We have installed and configured Nagios XI on linux machine.

Issue is not able to login on nagios application not getting any issue.

We checke dan found that Nagios is generation lots of files. Directory /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xidpe using high inodes.

[root@gdms01vp ~]# cd /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xidpe/
[root@gdms01vp xidpe]# ls -l | wc -l
830497

Could you please suggest into this.

Thanks,
Rajeev Anand

[scottwilkerson]

Make sure that cron service is running. It is normal for nagios to drop files there, but they should get picked up immediately and processed by the perfdataproc cron.

[Endeavour Energy]

Hi,
Ran the below command to checked

service crond status

It is showing message crond (pid 2389) is working.

Shall i delete manually all the file generated in /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xidpe

Please suggest

[Endeavour Energy]

Hi,

On screen we are experiencing the below error.

SQL Error [ndoutils] : can't create/write to file /tmp/#sql_8fa_o.MYI

Thanks
Rajeev Anand

[scottwilkerson]

is the disk full?

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df -h

If not what are the permissions on /tmp

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ls -ld /tmp

[Endeavour Energy]

Hi,

Ran the below command and checked

service crond status

It is showing message crond (pid 2389) is working.

Shall i delete manually all the file generated in /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xidpe.

inode is 100% full.

Please suggest

[scottwilkerson]

Shall i delete manually all the file generated in /usr/local/nagios/var/spool/xidpe.

inode is 100% full.

yes, but then you are going to want to see why this cron job isn't running.

Report the following

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chage -l nagios
tail -50 /var/log/cron
tail -50 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/perfdataproc.log

Have you made any configuration mods lately like trying to install a ramdisk or anything like that?

[Endeavour Energy]

Hi

Result of below commands is attached as screenshot
chage -l nagios
tail -50 /var/log/cron
tail -50 /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/perfdataproc.log

Thanks
Rajeev

[scottwilkerson]

Ok so there are several problems, first the password is expired for the Nagios user.

You should run the following

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chage -m 0 -M 99999 -I -1 -E -1 nagios

Second, you are out of disk space again but this should resolve once you fix the password ageing.