[Nagiosplug-devel] [nagios-plugins] check_procs: On solaris10 args field empty but ps -ef shows args (#1203)

[eponymous alias]

Something's amiss with your command line.  First of all, you can't execute that command without quoting the expression.  If you don't, your shell will interpret the "*" character, try to expand it as part of a glob, and you'll get nothing back.

Second, the command you list here in this email doesn't include a couple of the "*" characters shown in the forum item:

 ./check_procs -c 1:1 --ereg-argument-array=.*java.*-Dname.*

Putting all of this together, running a small test program named "java" (that just sleeps forever) with the arguments you present:

% ps -o args | fgrep java | fgrep -v fgrep
/tmp/procs/java -Dprogram.name=run.sh -server -Dname=xyz -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -X
% check_procs -c 1:1 --ereg-argument-array='.*java.*-Dname.*'
PROCS OK: 1 process with regex args '.*java.*-Dname.*' | procs=1;;1:1;0;

which is to say, it works for me.

I happen to be running this using the Nagios Plugins 1.5 on Solaris 10, for comparison.

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On Mon, 10/14/13, dmikulski <notifications at github.com> wrote:

 Subject: [Nagiosplug-devel] [nagios-plugins] check_procs: On solaris10 args field empty but ps -ef shows args (#1203)
 To: "nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins" <nagios-plugins at noreply.github.com>
 Date: Monday, October 14, 2013, 11:55 PM
 
 There is probably a bug which I can't
 take a deeper debugging on because I don't have the
 knowledge how to.
 
 There is a service running on my solaris10 sparc machine
 which with 'ps -ef | grep java' shows:
 
 javauser 3775 1 0 Oct 08 ? 283:36
 /usr/jdk/latest/bin/amd64/java -Dprogram.name=run.sh -server
 -Dname=xyz
 
 Trying:
 
 ./check_procs -c 1:1
 --ereg-argument-array=.java.-Dname.*
 
 results in:
 
 PROCS CRITICAL: 0 processes with regex args
 '.java.-Dname.*'
 
 Debugging with:
 
 ./check_procs -c 1:1
 --ereg-argument-array=.java.-Dname.* -vvv | grep
 java
 
 results in:
 
 S 1995 3775 1 0 0 0.3 java proc#=0 uid=1995 vsz=0 rss=0
 pid=3775 ppid=1 pcpu=0.30 stat=S etime= prog=java args=
 
 S 0 22707 18750 4292 1032 0.0 grep grep javaproc#=0 uid=0
 vsz=4292 rss=1032 pid=22707 ppid=18750 pcpu=0.00 stat=S
 etime= prog=grep args=grep java
 
 S 0 22706 18750 4440 1224 0.0 check_procs ./check_procs -c
 1:1 --ereg-argument-array=.java.-Dname.*
 -vvvproc#=0 uid=0 vsz=4440 rss=1224 pid=22706 ppid=18750
 pcpu=0.00 stat=S etime= prog=check_procs args=./check_procs
 -c 1:1 --ereg-argument-array=.java.-Dname.*
 -vvv
 
 Processlist comes from
 /opt/csw/libexec/nagios-plugins/pst3
 
 Running 'pargs 3775':
 
 3775: /usr/jdk/latest/bin/amd64/java -Dprogram.name=run.sh
 -server -Dname=xyz
 
 argv[0]: /usr/jdk/latest/bin/amd64/java
 
 argv[1]: -Dprogram.name=run.sh
 
 argv[2]: -server
 
 argv[3]: -Dname=xyz
 
 argv[4]: -Xms4096m
 
 argv[5]: -Xmx4096m
 
 argv[6]: -Xmn512m
 
 argv[7]: -Dorg.apache.lucene.maxClauseCount=4096
 
 argv[8]: -Xloggc:/home/xyz/log/GC.log
 
 argv[9]: -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
 
 argv[10]: -Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=60000
 
 argv[11]: -Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=60000
 
 argv[12]: -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
 
 argv[13]: -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps
 
 argv[14]: -XX:+PrintGCDetails
 
 argv[15]: -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000
 
 argv[16]: -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000
 
 argv[17]: -XX:+UseParNewGC
 
 argv[18]: -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=10
 
 argv[19]: -DMaSystem.simple=true
 
 argv[20]:
 -Dproperties.decorator.class=com.materna.buc.macs.basics.properties.MacsPropertiesWrapper
 
 argv[21]: -Dmacs.home=/home/xyz
 
 argv[22]: -Djava.awt.headless=true
 
 argv[23]: -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/home/xyz/jboss/lib/endorsed
 
 argv[24]: -classpath
 
 argv[25]:
 /home/xyz/jboss/bin/run.jar:/usr/jdk/latest/lib/tools.jar
 
 argv[26]: org.jboss.Main
 
 argv[27]: -c
 
 argv[28]: all
 
 argv[29]: --partition=xyzPartition
 
 argv[30]: --udp=215.116.3.6
 
 argv[31]: -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
 
 argv[32]: -b
 
 argv[33]: 192.168.234.212
 
 uname -a
 
 SunOS host1 5.10 Generic_118855-36 i86pc i386 i86pc
 
 Everything was run as root user!
 
 The forum thread below:
 http://www.monitoring-portal.org/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=29552
 
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