Any way to monitor processes via rsh?

[Johnathan Huettner]

   Greetings, does anyone know if it's possible to monitor a UNIX process 
via rsh from Nagios?  My company has a legacy Data General machine running 
DG/UX.  Obviously I'd prefer to use NRPE but this machine is very old and 
plays a critical role for our company.  I know rsh isn't secure, but trying 
to compile or run other processes on this box is too risky for us or our 
customers.  Compiling something is not in the picture.
   What I'm looking to do is monitor a process in which the PID may change.  
I simply want to run something like rsh -l nagios system_name "ps -ef | grep 
process_name" on my Nagios server and have it alert me if the process fails. 
  Is there a way to accomplish this?

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