[Nagiosplug-help] check_procs - integer error

[secrookie at gmail.com]

Thanks Hari for the advise and suggestion.

Will try this out on my test box (CentOS 5).

regards,
secrookie
2008/5/1 Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com>:
> >
>  Not specifically answering your question but it's obvious that you are
> running the Syslog to MySQL logserver. Testing that the syslog2mysql script
> is running is fine... and you may be running it differently to me, but mine
> respawns automatically and instantly if the script dies or is terminated for
> any reason, so testing for the process, at least in my case, is completely
> pointless since there will always be a running process.
>
>  Testing the logserver stack top to bottom would probably be better as this
> makes sure everything is working. I wrote a plugin specifically for this
> purpose (one of my favourite plugins), it generates a unique log, send it
> either via tcp or udp and then selects from the mysql db for the log message
> to confirm that the whole stack is working including the syslog2mysql bit by
> implication. It takes a lot of switches so that it should work with just
> about any syslog to mysql implementation and might be a good solution for
> you.
>
>  You can get it here:
>
>  http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1381.html;d=1
>
>  -h
>
>  --
>  Hari Sekhon
>
>