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401 Unauthorized webapp errors

i'm tweaking nagios to watch for errors in the logfiles. i stumble across a few "401 Unauthorized" errors in the syslog for the webapp:

root@chameleon:/var/lib/check_mk/logwatch# grep Unauthorized -r
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 15:07:37 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 16:43:28 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 16:45:56 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 16:50:02 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 16:53:18 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 16:57:09 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 16:57:49 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 17:02:56 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 17:03:15 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 17:05:44 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 17:06:07 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 17:06:21 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:. Feb 25 17:07:58 elephant webapp[27640]: 401 Unauthorized:
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 25 17:12:07 elephant webapp[17167]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 26 01:23:13 elephant webapp[2838]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 26 01:24:08 elephant webapp[3395]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 26 01:35:13 elephant webapp[7507]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 26 01:36:08 elephant webapp[7973]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 26 01:42:07 elephant webapp[10210]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
elephant.dev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 26 12:38:08 elephant webapp[27075]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
canvasback.cdev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 25 17:46:40 canvasback webapp[26065]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
canvasback.cdev.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 25 17:56:40 canvasback webapp[4339]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
chameleon.unstable.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 25 15:05:40 chameleon webapp[4310]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
chameleon.unstable.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 25 15:32:23 chameleon webapp[16835]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
chameleon.unstable.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 25 16:18:23 chameleon webapp[5733]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}
chameleon.unstable.bitmask.i/\var\log\syslog:C Feb 26 13:08:23 chameleon webapp[7859]: Could not connect to couch database messages due to 401 Unauthorized: {"error":"unauthorized","reason":"You are not a server admin."}

what are those ? they seem to happen out of the blue.

i last deployed to unstable.bm + dev.bm webapp nodes on Feb 26 13:06 UTC, that might correlate to the Feb 26 13:08:23 error, but that would not explain the elephant errors last night i.e.

azul, do you have an idea ? i added related issues, some of them where services wrongly report an 401 unauthorized error when sth else was the real problem.

(from redmine: created on 2014-02-26, closed on 2015-04-11)