[Nagiosplug-devel] [Nagios-devel] check_procs issue on Solaris

[Ton Voon]

On 26 Mar 2007, at 23:25, J.R. Taisto wrote:

>      The issue I seem to be running into with the Nagios
> check_procs plugin is the fields for "ps -alxwwn" sometimes
> merge into each other.  I haven't figured out yet how to make
> "ps" not do this.  See below:
>
> # /usr/ucb/ps -alxwwn | more
>  F   UID   PID  PPID %C PRI NI   SZ  RSS    WCHAN S TT
> TIME COMMAND
>  1     0     0     0  0  96  0    0    0          T ?
> 0:36 sched
>  0     0     1     0  0  59 20 2384  576 600063d04aa S ?
>   44:43 /sbin/init
>  1     0     2     0  0  98  0    0    0 018fae68 S ?
> 0:00 pageout
>  1     0     3     0  0  60  0    0    0 01910d78 S ?
> 2026:54 fsflush
>  0     0     7     1  0  59 2022160 2416 3000327b166 S ?
>    2:07 /lib/svc/bin/svc.startd
>  0     0     9     1  0  59 2010544 2160 3000327a806 S ?
>    0:54 /lib/svc/bin/svc.configd
>
>
> This explains why check_procs doesn't work as expected on
> Solaris.  See example below:
>
> # ps -ef | wc -l
>      896
>
> # ./check_procs --version
> check_procs (nagios-plugins 1.4.6) 1.58
>
> # ./check_procs -w 5 -c 10 -t 30
> PROCS CRITICAL: 232 processes
>
>  # ./check_procs -w 5 -c 10 -t 30 -vvv | more
> CMD: /usr/ucb/ps -alxwwn
>  1     0     0     0  0  96  0    0    0          T ?
> 0:36 sched
> proc#=0 uid=0 vsz=0 rss=0 pid=0 ppid=0 pcpu=0.00 stat=T etime=
> prog= args=sched
>  0     0     1     0  0  59 20 2384  576 600063d04aa S ?
>   44:43 /sbin/init
> proc#=1 uid=0 vsz=2384 rss=576 pid=1 ppid=0 pcpu=0.00 stat=S
> etime= prog= args=/sbin/init
>  1     0     2     0  0  98  0    0    0 018fae68 S ?
> 0:00 pageout
> proc#=2 uid=0 vsz=0 rss=0 pid=2 ppid=0 pcpu=0.00 stat=S etime=
> prog= args=pageout
>  1     0     3     0  0  60  0    0    0 01910d78 S ?
> 2027:07 fsflush
> ...
> ... Here's an example of some of the nonparsable stuff:
> ...
>  0   110   234     1  0  59 2043902084249176 30073ad758a S ?
>        0:00 oraclePRD (LOCAL=NO)
> Not parseable:  0   110   234     1  0  59 2043902084249176
> 30073ad758a S ?         0:00 oraclePRD (LOCAL=NO)
>
> Note the "Not parseable:" tag.  Do you have any
> recommendations?  I'm thinking I need not use the ucb version
> of "ps," but I'm not sure that is necessarily the right
> decision if that seems to be the preferred version of "ps" for
> this plugin.  All help is appreciated.  Thanks.

Cross posting to nagiosplug-devel list. Please reply to there only.

It looks like the SZ and RSS columns have been merged together? Is  
there anyway to tell when one ends and the other starts?

There's been so many issues with the solaris support of check_procs.  
I'll continue the discussion on the nagiosplug-devel mailing list.

Ton

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