[Nagiosplug-devel] New plugins, autoconf & pre-built binaries

[Voon, Ton]

Assuming we have a souped-up check_procs, what would the syntax be?

My proposal:

check_procs --check=vsz -w 10 -c 5 [filters]

where filters are options from:
	-s state, -p ppid, -u user, -a argument, -C command (default: all
processes)

and --check can be 
	procs (default), vsz, rss, cpu

My only concern is that -w and -c would be treated differently depending on
the --check option used (eg cpu would probably be percentage, procs would be
ints, vsz would be bytes). I think separating it into links to the same
check_procs makes it a bit clearer that they are different threshold values,
but this is not a strong preference.

Thoughts?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Subhendu Ghosh [SMTP:sghosh at sghosh.org]
> Sent:	Monday, March 31, 2003 7:13 PM
> To:	NagiosPlug Devel
> Subject:	RE: [Nagiosplug-devel] New plugins, autoconf & pre-built
> binaries
> 
> Preference for a souped-up version is portability doesn't create too many 
> problems in coding.
> 
> -sg
> 
> On 31 Mar 2003, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 05:00, Voon, Ton wrote:
> > > check_cpu is actually a cpu check on processes, not the overall load
> on a
> > > system. Maybe a rename to check_procs_cpu? If so, there is a check_vsz
> to
> > > check the virtual size of processes - maybe this should change to
> > > check_procs_vsz for consistency?
> > > 
> > > I also notice that the configure.in holds checks for an RSS_COMMAND,
> but
> > > there is no check_rss. Is this worthwhile to do? (I'm thinking a
> symlink of
> > > check_vsz, but with slightly different processing, ala check_tcp /
> check_ftp
> > > / check_telnet)
> > 
> > Actually, I'd prefer to see them all rolled up into on souped up version
> > of check_procs. Is that feasible? Do other people consider a single
> > program the better option?
> > 
> > To me, since we test status, owner, etc in check_procs, cpu usage is
> > just more of the same.
> > 
> > Problem would be making it portable, of course.
> > 
> > --
> > Karl
> 


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