5.10.1. Nagios status log staleness alert

This alert determines if the Nagios Server is updating its status log regularly. Ambari depends on the status log (/var/nagios/status.dat) to receive all the Nagios alerts.

5.10.1.1. Potential causes

The Nagios server is hanging and thus not scheduling new alerts
The file /var/nagios/status.dat does not have appropriate write permissions for the Nagios user.

5.10.1.2. Possible remedies

Restart the Nagios server
Check the permissions on /var/nagios/status.dat.
Check /var/log/messages for any related errors.

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