Checking multiple different procs in one service check

[Matthias Flacke]

Hi Hari,

please have a look at http://my-plugin.de/check_multi.

It wraps arbitrary calls of plugins, commands, whatever you need and is not 
limited to process checks.

Just as a more generic approach, while the basic idea is very similar ;-)

-Matthias


Hari Sekhon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I have a need to test a collection of procs and their arguments in 
> one service, I was going to post to the list to ask for suggestions, but 
> then I thought to check NagiosExchange and found a couple of plugins, 
> but nothing that suited my need, specifically they were orientated to 
> testing if a process name is running, and the number of processes of a 
> given name running, but they did not allow me to specify arguments that 
> those processes must be running.
> 
> I found this to be severely limiting when checking on collections of 
> interdependent scripts (I don't want to just check how many "bash"s or 
> "python"s are running...)
> 
> So I've quickly written my own plugin in Bash to do this and I've posted 
> it to NagiosExchange in case anyone else has this same requirement.
> 
> The script is basically a wrapper around the standard check_procs 
> allowing you to test several detailed services in one service check 
> which gives a lot more intelligence that the traditional check if a 
> single process is running, especially if you have any stack of 
> programs/scripts/operations that all need to be running but you don't 
> want to monitor them individually or you have too many of them to 
> practically monitor individually.
> 
> It currently takes a really nice and simple config file so it's easy to 
> have a stack of specific things to test.
> 
> Feedback is welcome and improvements will be made as needed/requested. I 
> was considering adding support for process states and process metrics 
> other than just the number of processes, but I don't (yet) use these 
> options in check_procs and so I decided to keep the config file very 
> very simple and clean, rather than bloat it with options nobody is 
> using. I'll revise the plugin as I get requests from people doing 
> specific things.
> 
> 
> You can find the plugin here:
> 
> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2649.html;d=1
> 
> So there you go, a question answered and a new plugin that will 
> hopefully be generally useful for specific multi process checking.
> 
> -h
> 

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http://my-plugin.de/check_multi

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