Monitoring Long process names on Solaris

[Jim Mozley]

Charles Bueche wrote:


> well, for some things, you have no choice. We do it that way (not in
> Nagios) to check for processes that must run and have ugly long names
> (eg WLS instances). The right way is to run it once every 5 minutes and
> look for all processes you want (not running /usr/ucb/ps auxwww | grep
> pname for each process).

Just a thought, have you tried using pgrep? Don't know if it will help 
get around the long names. I'm using perl's proc::processtable you might 
get some milage from this.

Jim Mozley


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