Force notification?

[Peter Lauda]

Well... I have nrpe running on the box where I want this process monitored. So perhaps I didn't explain well enough. The check I need for the named process is easy enough using check_nrpe/nrpe and the check_total_procs plugin with the -c "command name" for the process itself.  So the check is working fine but even when it fails basd on my threshold values for the # of these processes I want to see, the state change is only SOFT - critical. 

Does that make more sense?

Thanks...

--p
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mike Koponick 
  To: Peter Lauda ; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:27 PM
  Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Force notification?


  I'm sure others may have more information, but in order to create a notification you need to "create" a hard state change. Having said that, you would need to run some sort of check command that would check what you wanted, in your case it would be a number of named process.



  Mike



  -----Original Message-----
  From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Peter Lauda
  Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:23 PM
  To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
  Subject: [Nagios-users] Force notification?



   have read as much doc on notifications as I can find. Everything refers to the idea that Nagios will send notifications for hosts or service that experience a HARD state change. Well, Ok... but I want to monitor a service, say a process by name on an nrpe monitored server. If the number of that named process drops below X I want to get a notification. Is this possible or is there some way that I can force that situation to CREATE a HARD state change? I always see it in the logs as a SOFT change and of course, no notification. 



  Any advice very much welcome.



  --p
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