[Nagiosplug-help] Checking for a process

[Voon, Ton]

David,

I'm looking at the help now and I don't fully understand it either:

<quote>
check_snmp (nagios-plugins 1.3.0-beta2) 1.5
The nagios plugins come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute
copies of the plugins under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Ethan Galstad <nagios at nagios.org>

Check 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

Usage:
 check_procs -w <range> -c <range> [-s state] [-p ppid] [-u user]
             [-a argument-array] [-C command]
 check_procs --version
 check_procs --help

Required Arguments:
 -w, --warning=RANGE
    generate warning state if process count is outside this range
 -c, --critical=RANGE
    generate critical state if process count is outside this range

Optional Filters:
 -s, --state=STATUSFLAGS
    Only scan for processes that have, in the output of `ps`, one or
    more of the status flags you specify (for example R, Z, S, RS,
    RSZDT, plus others based on the output of your 'ps' command).
 -p, --ppid=PPID
    Only scan for children of the parent process ID indicated.
 -u, --user=USER
    Only scan for proceses with user name or ID indicated.
 -a, --argument-array=STRING
    Only scan for ARGS that match up to the length of the given STRING
 -C, --command=COMMAND
    Only scan for exact matches to the named COMMAND.

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
</quote>

I'll get the program name at the top fixed ;-)

I think the final paragraph is the confusing one. I think the corrections
should be "If specified 'min:max'" and "outside the specified range".

What would you want it to read?

Ton

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David Corbin [SMTP:dcorbin at machturtle.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 30, 2003 12:01 AM
> To:	Voon, Ton
> Cc:	nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject:	Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Checking for a process
> 
> Yep.  That was it.  It's all a matter of how a range is specified, which 
> doesn't seem to be documented  in the help.
> 
> Voon, Ton wrote:
> 
> >David,
> >
> >I think this should do what you want:
> >
> >check_procs -c 1:1 -C fetchmailx
> >
> >Be aware that the -C is not a pattern-match: it must be the full name of
> the
> >command. Run "check_procs -v" to see the ps command used and it should be
> >the process name in the last column.
> >
> >Ton
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: David Corbin [mailto:dcorbin at machturtle.com]
> >Sent: 29 January 2003 12:23
> >To: Voon, Ton
> >Cc: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> >Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-help] Checking for a process
> >
> >
> >I don't mean to be stupid, but ....  It's clear I don't understand  the 
> >command line arguments.  I've tried playing with several combinations of 
> >arguments, but they all yield "OK".   What should the arguments be to 
> >verify that exactly one instance of the process is running?  (I think 
> >I've got the -C part right, it's the rest that's causing me grief).
> >
> >oboe:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_procs -w 1-1 -c 1-1 -C fetchmailx
> >OK - 0 processes running with command name fetchmailx
> >
> >Thanks
> >David
> >
> >Voon, Ton wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>check_procs ;-)
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: David Corbin [mailto:dcorbin at machturtle.com]
> >>Sent: 29 January 2003 11:55
> >>To: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] Checking for a process
> >>
> >>
> >>Is there a plugin that is designed to check that a particular process is
> 
> >>running?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>David
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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