[Nagiosplug-help] Checking status of specific plugin

[John Rowan]

Greetings,

I have recently moved to a new environment and am trying to get Nagios
running with at least the same functionality as I have utilized in the
past. We are running Nagios 1.1 with plugins 1.3.1 and nrpe 2.0. What I
am attempting to do is to determine whether by name a particular process
is running or not. The check_procs plugin allows you to specify
processes to monitor by command name (-C) or command argument (-a) but
it is geared towards a critical and warning level of too many processes.
There doesn't appear to be a way to simply monitor whether process foo
is running or not.

I was able to achieve this in a previous environment using Nagios 1.0,
netsaint_statd 2.15, and an older plugin, check_named_proc.pl. I have
looked over the existing plugins and don't see any with this
functionality. I'm hoping that someone on the list can suggest an
existing plugin that I can use. If not, I can write my own as it doesn't
seem terribly difficult. I'm just trying to avoid reinventing the wheel.
:-)

Thank you.

John