Checking for cron

[Mark Musone]

The standard nagios plugin check_procs should be able to easily do this.
This is what it's made for.

-Mark



-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Carroll,
Jim P [Contractor]
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:46 AM
To: 'Nagios-Users (E-mail)'
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Checking for cron


Write a plugin to basically do "ps -ef | grep cron | grep -v grep" and
if the answer is null, return a critical error "exit 2".  Then call it
remotely using NRPE from your Nagios host.

But this begs the question... are you seriously having problems with
cron abending?

If I were you, I'd be checking logfiles and/or running truss and/or
checking with SunSolve.  If you're still not having any luck, try and
install xinetd. But seriously, I'd consider cron to be one of those
daemons that never exits, unless someone's been mucking with the
libraries (or the binary, for that matter).

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Belrose [mailto:derek at omegabyte.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:33 AM
> To: 'Nagios-Users (E-mail)'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Checking for cron
> 
> 
> Hey guys, I'm running Nagios to monitor a bunch of different systems 
> (mostly the Sun/Cobalt Raqs) and I need to keep a close watch on crond

> to make sure it DOES NOT drop.
> 
> I'm running it on one server and having it check others using the 
> standard check_* plugins and I tend to want to stay away from SNMP due

> to a severe lack of understanding of it.
> 
> Any ideas on how I may check this on a reoccurring basis?
> 
> Derek
> Omegabyte Networks
> 
> 
> 
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