Monitoring a process

[Hari Sekhon]

One thing I notice in your configurations, apart from the massive retry 
interval is that you are inheriting max check attempts of 15 from the 
leadlander template. This means you have to wait 60 minutes for 1st 
failure and then 14* 6 hours for the 15th failure on which it goes hard 
critical and alerts you.

Change your check intervals and/or max check attempts for this service 
in order to make it go into a hard state and then you will get your 
notification.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Jerad Riggin wrote:
> Just to clarify
>
>         normal_check_interval           60
>         retry_check_interval            360
>         notification_interval           360
>
> This means that it checks every hour.  After it fails the first time,
> it will wait 6 hours to retry, if it is still not OK after 6 hours, it
> notifies and begins to notify every 6 hours until it's ok.
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 3:00 PM, Rich Sasko <rsasko at niag.com> wrote:
>   
>> It only notifies after it enters a hard state which is usually after the
>> third try.
>>
>> Richard Sasko
>> Niagara Lasalle Corp
>> Phone: (219) 853-6272
>> Mobile: (219) 484-5617
>> E-mail: rsasko at niag.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jerad Riggin [mailto:jriggin at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:54 PM
>> To: Rich Sasko
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a process
>>
>> Thanks for the response.  This is what I did just a bit ago.  I have
>> it successfully monitoring outlook.exe, however no e-mails are being
>> sent when it's critical.
>>
>> Here is what I have as the service definition:
>>
>> define service{
>>        use                     leadlander
>>        host_name               leadlandervm
>>        service_description     Outlook Process
>>        contact_groups          bo,mis
>>        notification_options    w,u,c,r
>>        check_command           check_nt2!PROCSTATE!-d SHOWALL -l
>> outlook.exe
>>        }
>>
>> Here is what I have for the leadlander template
>>
>> define service{
>>        use                             generic-service
>>        name                            leadlander
>>        is_volatile                     0
>>        check_period                    24x7
>>        max_check_attempts              15
>>        normal_check_interval           20
>>        retry_check_interval            20
>>        notification_interval           20
>>        notification_period             24x7
>>        register                        0
>>        }
>>
>> Does it only notify after the first retry failure, or should it notify
>> as soon as the service is critical?  Any ideas?
>>
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2007 2:39 PM, Rich Sasko <rsasko at niag.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Jerad Riggin <jriggin <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Would it be possible using Nsclient++ to monitor for a process name?
>>>> We need to make sure Outlook.exe is running on the server and if it
>>>> isn't, send out notifications.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Jerad
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Jerad,
>>>
>>> We have the NSClient++ running on our Windows servers and the
>>>       
>> following
>>     
>>> service check is an example of how we are monitoring services from the
>>>       
>> nagios
>>     
>>> server:
>>>
>>> define service{
>>>     use                   generic-service
>>>     host_name             email server
>>>     service_description   explorer
>>>     check_command         check_nt!PROCSTATE!-d SHOWALL -l
>>>       
>> explorer.exe
>>     
>>> }
>>>
>>> It is actually in one of the sample config files, you should just have
>>>       
>> to tell
>>     
>>> it what process you want to watch.
>>>
>>>
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