Re: [Nagios-users] check_load gone crazy

2010-09-08 Thread Marc Powell
On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:39 PM, Mike Chesnut wrote: I'm wondering if this is a known bug, and/or if anybody else has seen similar behavior... We're using Nagios 3.2.1 on Linux, monitoring several Linux systems. We run the check_load probe against every system. Occasionally (at

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load gone crazy

2010-09-08 Thread Dorfman, Justin
I believe you are running into a flapping issue. Read this: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/flapping.html http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/flapping.html Regards, Justin Dorfman Mahalo.com Inc. Jr. Systems Engineer 818.485.1458 @jdorfman http://www.twitter.com/jdorfman |

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load gone crazy

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Chesnut
What transport mechanism are you using to run check_load on the remote systems? It is not 'network aware' and so the check_load binary must be installed on each remote machine and run on that machine via some transport (check_nrpe, check_by_ssh, etc). It seems to me that you are not running

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load gone crazy

2010-09-08 Thread Dorfman, Justin
You are welcome. Glad to be of help. Regards, Justin Dorfman 818.485.1458 Sent from my Droid On Sep 8, 2010 12:07 PM, Mike Chesnut mi...@aggregateknowledge.com wrote: What transport mechanism are you using to run check_load on the remote systems? It is not 'network... Wow, good catch. With

[Nagios-users] check_load gone crazy

2010-09-07 Thread Mike Chesnut
I'm wondering if this is a known bug, and/or if anybody else has seen similar behavior... We're using Nagios 3.2.1 on Linux, monitoring several Linux systems. We run the check_load probe against every system. Occasionally (at non-regular intervals), Nagios will freak out and alert on the