Re: [Nagios-users] nagios loosing configuration?

[Zlatko B. <zb...@or...>]

Hi Terry,

I'am using nagios-1.0b3 on both the main and the backup server both 
running Linux (SuSE Enterprise 7 and SuSE 8.0 Professional).

I looked further and found that when I'am rebooting nagios the settings 
stay wrong, but when I stop nagios, remove status.log and status.sav, 
and start nagios again the settings are ok for a while.



Terry Simons wrote:

> Zlatko,
>
> No, you're not running too many services.
>
> There are people out there running thousands of service checks with 
> hundreds of hosts or more. :)
>
> Firstly, what version of Nagios are you running, and what OS are you 
> running it on?
>
> It's possible that you found a bug, but I'm not really sure... I 
> haven't heard of anyone's settings sporadically changing. :)
>
> - Terry
>
> On Thursday, June 20, 2002, at 08:25 AM, Zlatko Baumberger wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'am using nagios for monitoring about 30 servers with more than 120 
>> services.
>> This week I installed a backup nagios-server in another location, 
>> that takes over the responsibility for checking the local hosts. It 
>> forwards then the check-results to the central host.
>> Because some of the checks are done by both hosts (checks of 
>> network-devices like routers, switches and firewalls) I disabled the 
>> passive_checks (passive_checks_enabled 0) for all services in the 
>> main services.cfg file on the central host.
>> In the services configuration files for the remote hosts I enabled 
>> the passive_checks.
>>
>> After starting nagios everithing looked ok. The 'tactical overview' 
>> showed 105 services with disables passive checks. After a while the 
>> it switched to 'all services enabled' for the passive checks and 105 
>> services disabled in the event-handler.
>>
>> When I look the 'service state information' of an individual service 
>> it shows: event disabled and passive enabled.
>> But on the 'view config' it is the other way round (there it is 
>> correct).
>>
>> Is nagios loosing or mixing the configuration after a while?
>>
>> Is my configuration to big? (I hope not, because I'am very happy with 
>> nagios until now)
>>
>> I have following structure of the configuration files:
>>
>> etc/hosts.cfg                    contains only general templates
>> etc/services.cfg                 "
>> ..
>> etc/network-devices/hosts.cfg    definition of my network devinces
>> etc/network-devices/services_switch1.cfg    services of switch#1
>> etc/network-devices/services_switch2.cfg    services of switch#2
>> ..
>> etc/db-server/hosts.cfg          all db-servers
>> etc/db-server/services.cfg       services of the db-servers
>> ..
>>
>>
>> In the nagios.cfg I am including these files with:
>>
>> cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg
>> cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/services.cfg
>> ..
>> cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/db-servers
>> cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/network-devices
>>
>>
>> Is this to complicated for nagios? Should I merge all hosts in one 
>> file and all services in another or even merge all configurations in 
>> one single file?
>>
>> thank you for your help
>>
>> Zlatko Baumberger
>>
>>