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monitor processes by owner

list Patrick Nixon
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:58:11 -0400
Message-Id: <user-0318c8989fc5@xymon.invalid>

Sort of similar to Jerald's idea, but it'll get you the graphs easier. :)

On your db server, go into the client's etc directory and modify the
hobbitclient.cfg.

changing
PS="ps ax"
to
PS="ps ax | $GREP oracle"

Caveat: This will restrict you to *JUST* monitoring processes for
oracle, nothing else on the server in question.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Sheets, Jerald
<user-dc7b196c5161@xymon.invalid> wrote:
How about write a custom script that is green when your ps -ef |grep
<procname> has the appropriate user, yellow if say, 1 or two is owned by
someone else, and maybe red if 5 or more?

You could also do no middle ground, too.  Green or red.

Fairly trivial, but it would not be monitored as a PROC, it would be a
custom check.

 Jerald Sheets
Sr. Systems Engineer
CNN News Systems
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-----Original Message-----
From: Josie Wells [mailto:user-94bf861d423d@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 6:40 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] monitor processes by owner

Hi,

I am new to this mailing list so apologies if I am breaking any protocol
by sending this mail out to this address - I have searched the faqs and
can find no answer.

What I am trying to do is to monitor processes by the owner.

In hobbit-clients.cfg I can specify a string to search for in the
process name but I can find no way to look in the USER column.

If I could, then I could get a count of processes owned by oracle and
graph it out.

Is this possible?

Many thanks

Josie