[Nagiosplug-devel] New souped-up check_procs

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Hi Ton 

Can you update command.cfg.in for the new check_procs...

-sg

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Ton Voon wrote:

> I've finally updated check_procs so that it does vsz, rss and cpu 
> checks. It works well as it currently is, although there is a plan to 
> enhance the filter options so you can do SQL-like queries.
> 
> You can use a --metric option so that the metric returned is either 
> number of processes, vsz, rss or cpu. Should be easy to add any other 
> metrics in future. I've removed check_vsz. I've added in some examples 
> in --help to explain some common usages.
> 
> A potential problem is that I've had to guess a lot of the ps options 
> in configure.in. I've tested it on:
> 
> Linux 2.4 (Redhat 7.3 x86) - ok
> Linux 2.4 (Debian 2.2 x86) - ok
> Linux 2.2 (Debian 3.0 Alpha) - error about Unknown HZ value, but looks 
> like a system problem
> Linux 2.4 (Debian 3.0 Sparc) - ok
> Solaris 8 (Sparc) - ok
> Mac OS 10.2 - ok
> 
> If you can try out on any other OS, that would be great.
> 
> Finally, used -v for verbose and can specify multiple -v for extra 
> verbosity. I've gone with the philosophy of:
> verbose level 0 - minimal output (eg thresholds and summary)
> verbose level 1 - extra output, only one line for Nagios (eg list 
> processes that fail)
> verbose level 2 - config debug output (eg ps command used)
> verbose level 3 - loads of debug
> 
> Let me know if you think there needs to be extra categories.
> 
> Ton

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