Questions about check_procs

[Jeff Lane]

Hello everyone...  I have a couple questions about check_procs.

First off, I have it set up as a remote check on a host using nrpe... 
Now, nrpe seems to be working fine, and I DO get checks back, BUT I dont 
get the correct information back...

For example:

[root at xwing libexec]# ./check_nrpe -H www.pinehurst.net -p 42374 -c 
check_portsentry

CRITICAL - 77 processes running

Instead of giving me the total number of portsentry processes running, I 
am getting the total number of all processes on the machine.

Heres how the command is set up in nrpe.cfg on the target machine:

command[check_portsentry]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -w 1: -c 
:3 portsentry

I think the issue is in how I have the warning and critical flags set... 
but not sure about that.

That leads me to the second question...  I need a different threshold... 
I need a < or > threshold, instead of a > > threshold... In other words, 
I want to get warnings if the number of processes for portsentry is 
anything other than 2.

If one process dies, I want a critical warning, and if there are three 
or more running processes, I want a warning notice.

Is that doable???Or at the very least, I want it to let me know if the 
total ever falls below 2...

I can try setting warn and critical to 1, but that will give me a 
warning every time because the good total (2) will always be greater 
than the warning level (1).

I have looked at the help for check_procs but that doesnt seem to tell 
me anything useful... so, does anyone have any ideas on how to do this??

Thanks
Jeff


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Jeffrey Lane
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