monitor processes by owner

Thank you Bruce, Patrick, Jerald and David for your suggestions.

Although Patrick's idea sounds good I would like to monitor other processes as well if possible.

To confirm the the reasoning behind what I am trying to do, I am trying to see if the number of oracle owned processes ever comes close to the limit defined by the OS (MAXUPROC I think it's called) - a problem we have had in the past.

Therefore I'd like it to include all oracle processes rather than monitoring the oracle port as Bruce suggests.

Maybe the custom script is the way to go - but I'd really like to avoid that if I can.

Josie


--- On Mon, 11/2/09, White, Bruce <user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid> wrote:

From: White, Bruce <user-58f975e8bf9d@xymon.invalid>
Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitor processes by owner
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 3:26 PM
I track and graph Oracle DB
connections and connections to our Oracle forms server not
via processes but by port connections.  This is easily
done under the ports test, without any changes to
code.  In your hobbit-clients.cfg file, add a PORT rule
which defines the port used to make the connection and a
TRACK option.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Nixon [mailto:user-1f2406f832af@xymon.invalid]

Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:58 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitor processes by owner

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