Monitoring a group of processes

[Steve Shipway]

> An example is smbd and nmbd.  You need both of them to be 
> running for Samba to be operational.  I can use the command 
> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -C smbd to see that the 
> smbd processes are running, and I can do the same thing For 
> nmbd, but how do I look at them together? 

You could define two Nagios services using check_procs (one to check for
smbd, one to check for nmbd) and then define a third summary service using
check_summary (get it from www.nagiosexchange.org ) to give the worst result
of the two.  Use summary calculation '@max( /host/smbd /host/nmbd )' or
similar depending on your host and service names.

Steve




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