Re: [icinga-users] Flapping

2014-11-24 Thread Russell Van Tassell
Flapping generally means that it's going back and forth in-between states... likely, your test doesn't have enough time to succeed, but later comes back "ok" before it can be considered down or unreachable. You may try investigating and/or tweaking the check_interval, retry_interval, and similar se

Re: [icinga-users] status.dat

2014-09-08 Thread Russell Van Tassell
Any chance you had a disk full event, either in space or inodes? Places such as the "checkresults" directory are great places to accumulate far-too-many files (though that's a slightly dated issue with older core). On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Hans Scheffers wrote: > Hi, > > this weekend, ic

Re: [icinga-users] Why ip address and not hostnames ?

2014-07-14 Thread Russell Van Tassell
Simply, if your DNS or network infrastructure start to fail, it's best to mange sure your monitoring doesn't also fall over and render you even more completely blind. It's a design / best practices decision you don't have to follow... you just better be 1000% sure you'll never see an instance where