<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3086" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007>The exact process string is appearing with the options you are giving to ps. However Nagios may be using different options or even a binary it builds itself.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007>You can find out by grepping PS_COMMAND in config.h in the plugins build directory.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007>On Fedora Core 4, that gives:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007>#define PS_COMMAND "/bin/ps axwo 'stat uid pid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args'"<BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007>On Solaris, it gives:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007>#define PS_COMMAND "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/pst3"</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=179424716-24052007>Phil</DIV></SPAN></FONT><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> M V Ajay (vMoksha) [mailto:Ajay.MV@UCB-Group.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> 24 May 2007 17:04<BR><B>To:</B> Phil Costelloe; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] check_procs through nrpe gives wrong results<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Exact process string is appearing in the ps output.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>oracle 9882 1 0 May18 ? 00:01:40 ora_pmon_orcldb</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Nagios: 2.7 on x86_64 (RHEL4)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Nagios plugins: 1.4.5</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>check_procs : (nagios-plugins 1.4.5) 1.54</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>NRPE: 2.6 (RHEL4)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Nagios server is on x86_64 and monitored server is an i386. And RPM packages were built for the respective platforms.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Plugins were built as RPM packages on similar OS. Also there is only one 'ps' binary which is /bin/ps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=931384715-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ajay</DIV></FONT></SPAN><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Phil Costelloe<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:40 PM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] check_procs through nrpe gives wrong results<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=568343015-24052007>That explains why the process you want to monitor is called ora_pmon_orcldb but not why check_procs can't detect it. That's likely to be down to that exact string not appearing in the ps output that check_procs is using, maybe due to truncation.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=568343015-24052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=568343015-24052007>Back to basics. What version of Nagios are you using? What version of the plugins? What version of nrpe? How did you compile/install the plugins that are on the remote server, specifically were they compiled either on that server or on a server running the same OS?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=568343015-24052007><FONT size=2></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=568343015-24052007><FONT size=2>--<BR>Phil Costelloe<BR>Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE </FONT></DIV></SPAN></FONT><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>M V Ajay (vMoksha)<BR><B>Sent:</B> 24 May 2007 12:28<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] check_procs through nrpe gives wrong results<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=871352511-24052007>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=871352511-24052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=871352511-24052007>I found the reason for the behaviour.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=871352511-24052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=+0><SPAN class=871352511-24052007> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><EM>"Oracle have a process naming mechanism that enables you to distinguish between multiple instances of the database. With Oracle, when you open an instance, the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle executable renames itself using the UNIX environment variable ORACLE_SID for a given database. This variable is used in generating Oracle process names: ora_process_name_$ORACLE_SID."</EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></EM></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><SPAN class=871352511-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So is there a away to monitor process (using the process name) as they appear in 'ps -ef' output?</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><SPAN class=871352511-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><SPAN class=871352511-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><SPAN class=871352511-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ajay</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>M V Ajay (vMoksha)<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:41 PM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] check_procs through nrpe gives wrong results<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>I am monitoring a Redhat enterprise Linux 4 server running oracle using Nagios and NRPE.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>When I monitor Oracle PMON process (ora_pmon_orcldb) on the server I get the message that 'PROCS CRITICAL: 0 processes with command name 'ora_pmon_orcldb''.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>I have confirmed that process 'ora_pmon_orcldb' is actually running on the remote server. The same type of monitoring works for other processes such as 'httpd'.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Nagios command definition:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>define command {<BR> command_name nrpe_check_procs3<BR> command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -n -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_procs3 -a $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$<BR> }</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>NRPE configuration:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier">dont_blame_nrpe=1</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier">command[check_procs3]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -C $ARG3$</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier">From the command line I see the following message:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier">[nagios@nagiosserver ~]$ /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H oracleserver -n -c check_procs3 -a 1:4 1:8 ora_pmon_orcldb<BR>PROCS CRITICAL: 0 processes with command name 'ora_pmon_orcldb'<BR></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Any idea what is wrong?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Ajay</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=1><BR> <HR> Legal Notice: This electronic mail and its attachments are intended solely for the person(s) to whom they are addressed and contain information which is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure, except for the purpose for which they are intended. 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