***** Nagios ***** Notification Type: PROBLEM Service: CPU Load Host: BALLYs DBA-1 Address: ballys.hubteam.local State: UNKNOWN Date/Time: Mon Dec 28 12:53:20 CST 2009 Duration: 0d 0h 2m 1s Additional Info: NSClient - ERROR: Could not get data for 5 perhaps we dont collect data this far back? -------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------- ***** Nagios ***** Notification Type: PROBLEM Service: Memory Usage Host: BALLYs DBA-1 Address: ballys.hubteam.local State: UNKNOWN Date/Time: Mon Dec 28 12:52:20 CST 2009 Duration: 0d 0h 1m 31s Additional Info: NSClient - ERROR: Failed to get PDH value.
I received several odd errors with the Memory, CPU and Uptime monitors on one of our new servers with NSClient++. A little quick research led me to the solution below. Do not forget to restart the NSCLIENT service too after resetting the counters.
lodctr /R
** Make sure the "/R" is an upper case R.