You could write a custom script to do this easily (you'd need to
remember state, but that's easy). I'm not aware of any built-in Hobbit
check that would do this however. Maybe somebody else knows.
Other things to consider trying (using standard Hobbit stuff):
When the process restarts, does it do anything in a logfile? i.e.,
could you have Hobbit search for a restart text message in a logfile?
Is the logfile deleted and recreated at restart? You could have Hobbit
check the timestamp on the logfile possibly. When the process restarts,
does it write it's PID to a file? Check the timestamp of that PID file.
From: Moore, Paul [mailto:user-8c3a430470a0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:03 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Process ID Tracking.
Is hobbit capable of tracking the PID of a process that it is watching
for? I am in need of identifying if a process restarts with a new
process id. Several of our applications are self healing but we still
need notification that this did indeed restart. Any suggestions would
be helpful.
Paul Moore