Nagios XI - MK Livestatus Problems With Mod-Gearman

Warning: Mod-Gearman is an unsupported third-party utility.

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Problem Description

It has been observed that when you use the combination of Nagios Core 4 + Mod-Gearman + MK Livestatus, nagios can segfault on passive check results.

The issue is with MK Livestatus used in this combination.

The following combinations are reported to work fine:

• Nagios Core 4 + Mod-Gearman
• Nagios Core 4 + MK Livestatus
  

Additional Information

This has been discussed in GitHub at the following link:

https://github.com/sni/mod_gearman/issues/85

Final Thoughts

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