Single check script to monitor multiple processes

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

My bad.  I seem to recall someone has written a variation on the check_by_ssh plugin which kinda sorta does what you're looking for (without the verbose output).  Details escape me.

jc


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> From: Jim Mozley [mailto:jim.mozley at exponential-e.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 9:08 AM
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> 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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