Check_procs issue - Different Results

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

On 29/05/07 05:41 PM, Sapon, Dimitry wrote:
> Hi there,
>  
> I'm getting different results for the check_procs plugin from command
> line to the web interface of Nagios.
>  
> In the command line, if I use the same command as Nagios is supposed to
> run (specified in the commands.cfg and I monitored the commands passed
> to check_procs plugin), I get the correct number of processes running (2).
>  
> When run as an active check initiated by Nagios, in the web interface on
> the other hand, once it gets the results from the service check back,
> even though it passes the same arguments to the check_procs plugin, I
> always get 1 extra result (so 3 processes running), as if the
> check_procs plugin runs two different ps|grep commands and doesn't
> exclude itself when initiated by Nagios. Seem ridiculous but that's the
> only conclusion I could come up with.

What command line arguments are you using? Nagios 2.x forks twice when
it run a binary check* so maybe you're getting the first fork in your
results?

(*) Embedded Perl checks forks once and in Nagios 3 you can disable the
double-fork.

Thomas

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