[Nagiosplug-devel] check_procs

[VonEssen, John]

System is Solaris 2.8 (2/02). Plugin version is:

check_procs (nagios-plugins 1.3.1) 1.9.2.1

I am generating the output from the command line as follows:

# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -w 5 -c 10 -a abc123xyz

and I get:

OK - 1 processes running with args abc123xyz


And there is nothing with 'abc123xyz' is my ps -ef output.

On a related note, using the same commond line syntax, I am unable to
get the negate program to work - partly do to the fact that I am not
sure of the proper syntax. If I use:

# ./negate ./check_procs -w 5 -c 10 -a abc123xyz

I get:

OK - 2 processes running with args abc123xyz

-John

-----Original Message-----
From: Karl DeBisschop [mailto:karl at debisschop.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:49 PM
To: VonEssen, John
Cc: NagiosPlug Devel
Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] check_procs

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:44, VonEssen, John wrote:
> I have a question about how check_procs search for an argument.
> Apparently it counts some sort of grep process in its final output.

It does not use grep.

> So if you search for a process that is not running, you'll get a 
> return value of "OK - 1 processes ...".

I cannot reproduce the described bevaiour.

Can you tell us what OS and plugin version you are using?

Please be as specific as you can. For plugin version, the output of
check_procs --version is strongly preferred. For OS, be as specific as
you can. Also kernel version and the version of ps used can be
significant.

Also, the exact comment that you see this behaviour with.

If this can be confirmed, it is a bug and we will do our best to fix it.

--
Karl