Checking multiple different procs in one service check

[Hari Sekhon]

Ah, that looks great, I was thinking about having a generic multi check, 
and you seem to have done a very good job of it from first impressions, 
I'll try it out and see if I can switch to using this.

Thanks

-h


Matthias Flacke wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>


-- 
Hari Sekhon


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