I think "PROC" only matches on the "CMD" column, which would be why you
can't add in the username.
Recently I needed to check that a given process was only running on *one*
out of a set systems. I wrote that up as an external script on the Xymon
server itself. As the xymon user, try this:
xymon localhost "xymondlog server.domain.com.procs"
to get the process list reported by that server. You could then do
whatever pattern match you require and send a status message based on that.
Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Ward, Martin <user-2d33a6eb6a05@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi all,****
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I have been trying to persuade Xymon to search for a process and alert on
its non-existence, a simple task using the analysis.cfg file like so:****
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HOST=host1****
PROC “amd64/java” 1 1 red****
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Whilst this has worked previously the developers have now introduced a
dependency that the process should only be run by a specific user (i.e. not
root). I thought I could get away with:****
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PROC “%javauser.*amd64/java” 1 1 red****
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in the expectation that Xymon is testing against the whole of the output
from ps(1) and in this case would only match Java processes run by the
javauser user, but sadly this is not the case, I cannot persuade Xymon to
match against the process name AND the user who is running it.****
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Am I missing something/doing something wrong or is this the way Xymon
works?****
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