[Nagiosplug-help] check_nagios and ps problem

[Voon, Ton]

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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