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Checking process longevity

list Colin Coe
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:36:19 +0900
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From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2008 8:58 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Checking process longevity

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:07PM +0900, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
I do think that there are other cases
where monitoring how long a process exists is useful.
I was thinking that this could be done by adding a new flag to 'PROC' in
hobbit-clients.cfg.  Something like:
PROC processname minimumcount maximumcount color [TRACK=id] [TEXT=text]
[RUNTIME=seconds]
Example, alert if a 'df' has existed for more 60 seconds
HOST foo
	PROC df RUNTIME=60
Sure. Only problem is: How do you determine how long a process has
existed ?

Some systems report the start-time of a process in a separate column
(START in Linux, STIME in Solaris, ...) Not very accurate, since if they
were started more than 24 hours ago it shows only the date. I guess we
could use that.


Regards,
Henrik
That sounds great.  Typically, I'm looking for processes existing for 5
minutes.

Thanks

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