Zombie processes

[Anthony Montibello]

Hi,

On windows The definition of Zombie Processes is not well defined.
If you mean, a process that marked  "NOT RESPONDING" in taskmanager, I
always find that not completly unreliable, and in many cases the process
would start responding before the popup is triggered.

If you true intent is to restart a stoped service you can configure the
service to restart and have it submit a passive check via NSCA indicating it
was restarted via the Properties of the service in service manager.   If
your goal is to make sure a program or application is still running try
writing a script that tests some indicator that it is still working.  for
example if the process is suppose to write to a particular file on a regular
basis, run a FILEAGE check. if the process has some external interface like
a TCP port, use one of the TCP checks to see that the process is still
responding.


TOny (AUthor of NC_Net)
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:02:34PM -0400, Hart, Harry M. CTR USJFCOM
> SUPPORT.SUPPORT JTC-I wrote:
> > I should have said NsClient++ instead of NRPE. It is a windows box I'm
> > trying to monitor.
>
> That would have cleared it up, yes.
>
> Windows *has* zombie processes?  I wouldn't have thought its process
> model really created such...
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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