Monitoring Long process names on Solaris

[Charles Bueche]

Hi,

On Solaris, the process table is broken, the names are shortened. The
only way to get the full command names is to parse /proc/PIDs. Luckily,
there is another ps version that does this well :

	/usr/ucb/ps auxwww

Now, be sure to avoid calling this command too much, it takes a lot of
time and is heavy on the system.

You will need to adjust your plugin accordingly.

Regs,
Charles

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:44:30 -0600
"Jeffery P. Humes" <jeff at bofus.org> wrote:

> I am pretty new to the nagios scene. I am trying to monitor long named
> processes on Solaris 8.
> 
> I can monitor processes with the "check_procs" plugin:
> 
> ------
> check_procs -c 1:1 -C 
> "/opt/bea/jdk131_08/bin/../bin/sparc/native_threads/java" -a -ms384m
> 
> OK - 1 processes running with command name 
> /opt/bea/jdk131_08/bin/../bin/sparc/native_threads/java, args -ms384m
> ------
> 
> This works fine.
> 
> However, I run into a problem with processes that have very long names
> and the name I want to watch is near the end of the string.
> 
> example:
> bea      28402  0.2 20.6581704102648 ?        S   Mar 03 1050:18 
> /opt/bea/jdk131_08/bin/../bin/sparc/native_threads/java -ms384m
> -mx384m -Xrs -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -XX:MaxNewSize=128M
> -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -Xrs
> -Dcommerce.properties=/opt/bea/weblogic7/portal/weblogiccommerce.prop
> erties -Dejbruntime.appserver=weblogic61
> -Dejbruntime.config=weblogicportal40
> -Dejbruntime.database=oracle817thin
> -Dcom.compoze.home=/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/compoze
> -classpath 
> /opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/classes12.zip:/opt/ti_app
> s/portal/educationDomain/settings:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain
> /lib/ext/autonomyClient.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/s
> tartup/startup.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/adc.ja
> r:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/Utilities.jar:/opt/ti_a
> pps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/struts.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/edu
> cationDomain/lib/ext/commons-fileupload.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educa
> tionDomain/lib/ext/jakarta-regexp-1.2.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educati
> onDomain/lib/ext/log4j-1.2.8.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/
> settings/compoze/license:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/
> oro-2.0.4/oro-2.0.4.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/c
> ompoze/security.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/compo
> ze/csdk.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/compoze/j2ee_
> runtime.jar:/opt/ti_apps/portal/educationDomain/lib/ext/compoze/discu
> ssion.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/server/lib/weblogic.jar:/opt/bea/weblogi
> c7/server/lib/webservices.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/portal/lib/p13n_syst
> em.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/portal/lib/ext/jdom.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/
> portal/lib/ext/HTTPClient.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/portal/lib/ext/wlcsp
> arsers.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/portal/lib/commerce_system.jar:/opt/bea
> /weblogic7/portal/lib/campaign_system.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/server/l
> ib/jdom.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/portal/lib/portal_system.jar:/opt/bea/
> jdk131_08/lib/tools.jar:/opt/bea:/opt/bea/weblogic7/portal/lib/commer
> ce_system.jar:/opt/bea/weblogic7/portal/lib/campaign_system.jar
> -Dweblogic.Name=portal_ms1 -Dbea.home=/opt/bea
> -Dweblogic.management.username= -Dweblogic.management.password=
> -Dweblogic.management.server=http://ncapp10.eps.ti.com:9501
> -Dweblogic.ProductionModeEnabled=true
> -Djava.security.policy=/opt/bea/weblogic7/server/lib/weblogic.policy
> weblogic.Server
> 
> 
> I believe that the problem is the "ps" command that is called only
> show partial process strings.
> 
> How can I either:
> 1. get the check_procs command to use "/usr/ucb/ps auxww" instead of 
> "/usr/bin/ps"?
> 2. find some other way to monitor processes by name?
> 
> Thanks for any assistance.
> 
> -Jeff Humes
> 
> 
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