Single check script to monitor multiple processes

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

It's not currently being done.  Well, there might be one exception to this, depending on how you define your requirements.

The check_disk command will by default check all the partitions on a given host.  However:

- the OK/warn/crit will only tell you about 1 partition going warn/crit
- the length of the string is limited to something like 1K (which is a POSIX limitation, apparently)

The 1K of informational data is typically reported in a single row; someone recently suggested embedding HTML to format it (which of course would contribute to the usage of the 1K).

In summary, there are no plugins which do exactly what you're asking, and if you wrote your own, don't be surprised if the voluminous output you're hoping to retrieve gets truncated.

jc


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Mozley [mailto:jim.mozley at exponential-e.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 9:08 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Single check script to monitor multiple
> processes
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> Hi all,
> 
> I had an idea of something I wanted to do based on experience of using
> another system management tool. I thought of using one script 
> to monitor
> multiple important processes rather than having individual checks.
> 
> For instance, if I have a server that runs an mta, dns, 
> radius and a web
> server my critical processes might be sendmail, named, 
> radiusd and httpd.
> The check could look for the presence of all important 
> processes and report
> if one or more were not running, perhaps returning a list of 
> the failed ones
> in a message.
> 
> Thinking that this might have been done before I started to 
> look through the
> plugins but cannot find anything that seems to do this.
> 
> Is this because such a thing doesn't exist?
> 
> Is this because its an especially bad idea with Nagios?
> 
> I can see why one wouldn't want to do this as, for instance, 
> individual
> checks allow actions to be taken for different processes. 
> However, it seems
> more efficient to check whether a group of processes is not 
> working rather
> than putting in place individual checks.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
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