check_procs on a particular python script

[Hendrix, Austin]

If you're running this check on a machine other than the one running the Nagios server, you should be using one of the remote check plugins as a wrapper, either check_by_ssh or nrpe.

-Austin

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Swerdlow [mailto:rswerdlow at emergentdiscovery.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 2:22 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] check_procs on a particular python script

I'm trying to get Nagios to monitor whether a particular background  
job is running on a particular server.  I want to ensure that one and  
only one instance is running.

I am using check_procs, but I can't seem to get the command name and  
args right.  How should I do this?

Details:

I'm using Nagios Version 3.0.5.

The command in ps appears as:

0 R myuser 26507     1 48  75   0 - 91419 -      16:05 pts/0     
00:14:48 python -u -O /home/myuser/scripts/ 
make_async_xmlrequest_libraries.py

In my commands.cfg file I tried:

define command{
     command_name    check_my_job
     command_line    $USER1$/check_procs -c 1:1 -C "python" -a "/home/ 
myuser/scripts/make_async_xmlrequest_libraries.py"
}

and

define command{
     command_name    check_my_job
     command_line    $USER1$/check_procs -c 1:1 -C "python" -a "-u - 
O /home/myuser/scripts/make_async_xmlrequest_libraries.py"
}

and

define command{
     command_name    check_my_job
     command_line    $USER1$/check_procs -c 1:1 -C "python -u -O / 
home/myuser/scripts/make_async_xmlrequest_libraries.py"
}

and

define command{
     command_name    check_my_job
     command_line    $USER1$/check_procs -c 1:1 -C  
"make_async_xmlrequest_libraries.py"
}

but Nagios always reports that there are zero processes (I can see in  
the UI that it is doing the new check each time, but it does not find  
the process).

Thanks!
Bob

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