[Nagiosplug-help] Re: unexpected check_procs behavior

[jeff vier]

much more verbose.

One question, though.  It says "a warning status will be generated if
the count is inside the specified range" - my experimentation seems to
show that if your count is within the specified range, it'll show OK:

[nrpe]$ ./check_procs -c 1:8 -C /usr/local/sbin/sshd
OK - 6 processes running with command name /usr/local/sbin/sshd

That isn't a "warning status", is it? (if so, that's confusing)

also, is there an option to not have to be so specific with the -C? 
regex support, maybe?  If I run:
	./check_procs -c 1:8 -C sshd
I get
	CRITICAL - 0 processes running with command name sshd
Which I suppose is technically true, but I'm afraid of variances in the
way a given daemon is spawned (full-path versus ./) if, say, the
overnight admin has to log in and manually restart something.

thanks for your help!

--jeff

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:47, Voon, Ton wrote:
> check_procs --help?
> 
> The help for r1.3.1 was not super clear (to me). This is the text for the
> upcoming r1.4. Do you think this is better? If not, what do you recommend?
> 
> ---
> RANGEs are specified 'min:max' or 'min:' or ':max' (or 'max'). If
> specified 'max:min', a warning status will be generated if the
> count is inside the specified range
> 
> This plugin checks the number of currently running processes and
> generates WARNING or CRITICAL states if the process count is outside
> the specified threshold ranges. The process count can be filtered by
> process owner, parent process PID, current state (e.g., 'Z'), or may
> be the total number of running processes
> 
> Examples:
>  check_procs -w 2:2 -c 2:1024 -C portsentry
>    Warning if not two processes with command name portsentry. Critical
>    if < 2 or > 1024 processes
> 
>  check_procs -w 10 -a '/usr/local/bin/perl' -u root
>    Warning alert if > 10 processes with command arguments containing 
>    '/usr/local/bin/perl' and owned by root
> 
>  check_procs -w 50000 -c 100000 --metric=VSZ
>    Alert if vsz of any processes over 50K or 100K
> ---
> 
> Ton
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jeff vier [mailto:jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:39 PM
> > To: nagiosplug-help
> > Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] Re: unexpected check_procs behavior
> > 
> > 
> > excellent.  thank you very much, it works like a charm.
> > 
> > Is this functionality documented anywhere?
> > 
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 15:46, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> > > Jeff Vier writes: 
> > > 
> > > > Hello. 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm new to the list, so I hope this hasn't been addressed 
> > recently. 
> > > > 
> > > > I'm trying to add a new check_procs command to verify 
> > that at least
> > > > one instance of a particular daemon is running.  I 
> > THOUGHT if I ran: 
> > > > 	[~]$ /usr/local/nrpe/check_procs -c 1 -C test
> > > > I would get a critical (as there is no "test" daemon) but I get:
> > > > 	OK - 0 processes running with command name test
> > > > Is this expected behavior?  What command should I be 
> > running to get it
> > > > to throw a critical at 0 instances?
> > > 
> > > check_procs -c 1: -C test 
> > > 
> > > > Thank you for any help. 
> > > > 
> > > > --jeff 
> > > > 
> > > >  
> > > > 
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