<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.0.6396.0"> <TITLE>check_procs problems</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hello I am trying to monitor 3 Processes with nagios. /usr/sbin/inetd pbs_server /opt/CTXSmf/slib/ctxXtw -session 835 -terminate -notransfills -frameexpose -not I have tried the following. check_procs -c 1:1 -C /usr/sbin/inetd this works fine "OK - 1 processes running with command name /usr/sbin/inetd" check_procs -c 1:1 -C pbs_server this reports "CRITICAL - 0 processes running with command name pbs_server" but ps -ef|grep pbs_server reports "root 19925 1 0 May 07 ? 0:25 pbs_server" so the service is up, but check_procs is not seeing it????? any ideas? also the third process i dont know how to check as the number in the command line changes with every instance of the process, so check_procs -c 1:20 -a "/opt/CTXSmf/slib/ctxXtw -session 835 -terminate -notransfills -frameexpose -not" this will not work as only 1 process has that number. Any help from much appreciated. Stuart </BODY> </HTML>