Checking for cron

[Marc Powell]

Well, if you have apache running on the Raqs, a quick and dirty (very
dirty) solution would be to write a 10 liner cgi to simply do a 'ps -ef
| grep crond | grep -v grep' and output that as HTML. The check command
you would use in Nagios would be something like:

# 'check_remote_crond' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_remote_crond
        command_line    $USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -u http://
$HOSTADDRESS$/croncheck.cgi -s crond
        }

--
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Belrose [mailto:derek at omegabyte.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:33 AM
> To: 'Nagios-Users (E-mail)'
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Checking for cron
> 
> Hey guys, I'm running Nagios to monitor a bunch of different systems
> (mostly the Sun/Cobalt Raqs) and I need to keep a close watch on crond
> to make sure it DOES NOT drop.
> 
> I'm running it on one server and having it check others using the
> standard check_* plugins and I tend to want to stay away from SNMP due
> to a severe lack of understanding of it.
> 
> Any ideas on how I may check this on a reoccurring basis?
> 
> Derek
> Omegabyte Networks
> 
> 
> 
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