The -m will generate really much data but i think that 1 or 2 more "w"
can be good to get all the process names ... (last update on the first
client where i was checking for process names I had 30 minutes trying to
understand why one of my qmail process was not running :D)
It could be nice to have them as some kind of configuration that can be
done at configuration time or for example with the logfetch method (like
the filenames or log files to check).... Can be also nice to have to
choose to do network disk check with df or only local disks...
This is the difference on a machine with some javavm running of the ps
[bb at ITROMAS27 bb]$ ps -Aw -o
pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd |wc
183 2789 20249
[bb at ITROMAS27 bb]$ ps -Awww -o
pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd |wc
183 2801 20981
[bb at ITROMAS27 bb]$ ps -Awwwm -o
pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd |wc
981 20468 289819
So i think for 700 bytes we can put 2 more "w" the "m" can be
problematic ....
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Jones [mailto:user-e86b4aeade4e@xymon.invalid] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:28 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Host Notes
9) .... It's possible to have some more "w" directly on the ps command > in the hobbit client? Something like ps -www ... Some long java > commands are not displaying and the check on them is a bit difficult to do ...
I needed this as well, I changed the client ps command in hobbitclient-linux.sh to "ps -Awwm". The extra w gave me the width I needed, and the m allows me to make a "TRACK" graph of how many java threads are spawned.
I don't think this should be the default though, as I also ended up having to increase my MAXMSG_STATUS and MAXMSG_DATA lengths because of the increased output generated by ps with those options.
-Charles