[Nagiosplug-help] Re: [Nagios-users] check_nagios and ps problem

[Shawn McCool]

If you edit your Makefile for the nagios plugins you can modify /bin/ps to
/bin/ps -ax to fix this problem.

Once you compile you can simply set your check_nagios' last arguement to
whatever
you see in ps -ax | grep nagios.  An example of mine is:

nagios_check_command=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios
/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log 5 './nagios -d ../etc/nagios.cfg'



> checking for ps... (cached) /bin/ps
> I'm running Suse 7.0
> I'm using Nagios-Plugins 1.3.0
>
> Can I modify my config script to make it say /bin/ps -ax  ?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Voon, Ton" <Ton.Voon at egg.com>
> To: "'Shawn McCool'" <smccool at ascendantmedia.com>;
> <nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 2:48 AM
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nagios and ps problem
>
>
> > Copying to nagiosplug-help list. Can future replies remove the
> nagios-users
> > list
> >
> > Which version of check_nagios? Which OS? What does configure say your ps
> > command is?
> >
> > There have been some changes to check_nagios so that it uses the same ps
> > command as check_procs. Can you try with the latest CVS version - use
the
> > snapshot at http://nagiosplug.sf.net/snapshot. Use the -v flag to see
what
> > is being seen.
> >
> > Ton
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Shawn McCool [SMTP:smccool at ascendantmedia.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 6:53 PM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nagios and ps problem
> > >
> > > check_nagios gets a ps list and searches for the final arguement in
the
> > > check_nagios command line
> > >
> > > nagios_check_command=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios
> > > /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log 5 '/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios'
> > >
> > > In this case it checks for /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The Documentation:
> > >
> > > # Note: If you are using the check_nagios plugin here, the first
> > > # argument should be the physical path to the status log, the
> > > # second argument is the number of minutes that the status log
> > > # contents should be "fresher" than, and the third argument is the
> > > # string that should be matched from the output of the 'ps'
> > > # command in order to locate the running Nagios process.  That
> > > # process string is going to vary depending on how you start
> > > # Nagios.  Run the 'ps' command manually to see what the command
> > > # line entry for the Nagios process looks like.
> > >
> > > Suggest that i should run 'ps' to see what it returns.
> > >
> > > Wether I am the Nagios user or root ps has inappropriate return values
> for
> > > this check command.
> > >
> > > # ps
> > >   PID TTY          TIME CMD
> > >   534 tty1     00:00:00 mingetty
> > >   535 tty2     00:00:00 mingetty
> > >   536 tty3     00:00:00 mingetty
> > >   537 tty4     00:00:00 mingetty
> > >   538 tty5     00:00:00 mingetty
> > >   539 tty6     00:00:00 mingetty
> > >  1860 pts/8    00:00:00 bash
> > > 14765 pts/3    00:00:00 bash
> > > 11225 pts/6    00:00:00 bash
> > > 12483 pts/9    00:00:00 bash
> > > 12490 pts/9    00:00:01 ssh
> > > 12509 pts/10   00:00:00 bash
> > > 12540 pts/10   00:00:00 ssh
> > > 12774 pts/11   00:00:00 bash
> > > 12805 pts/11   00:00:00 ssh
> > > 19339 pts/2    00:00:00 bash
> > > 22771 pts/5    00:00:00 shell
> > > 22772 pts/5    00:00:00 ssh
> > > 24309 pts/12   00:00:00 bash
> > > 28146 pts/6    00:00:01 ssh
> > > 28993 pts/13   00:00:00 bash
> > > 29269 pts/12   00:00:00 ssh
> > > 29309 pts/14   00:00:00 bash
> > > 29316 pts/14   00:00:00 ssh
> > >  8053 pts/15   00:00:00 bash
> > > 11875 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
> > > 14706 pts/2    00:00:00 ps
> > >
> > > Although I assure you nagios IS running
> > >
> > > # ps waux | grep nagios
> > > nagios   12253  0.0  0.0  1560  880 ?        S    12:32   0:00
> ./nagios -d
> > > ../etc/nagios.cfg
> > >
> > > Is there a way to change the command line for ps so that I can have it
> > > return the appropriate information?
> >
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