Monitor Java Process

[Jatin Davey]

Thanks Edwin, Thanks for your inputs.

Thanks
Jatin

On 3/3/2010 11:17 PM, Edwin Zoeller wrote:
> No not the PID since that changes but the actual port assigned to the
> WAS application. A port is assigned when the WAS java application is
> created.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Gargiullo [mailto:mgargiullo at pivotpointsecurity.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:42 AM
> To: Nagios Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Java Process
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jatin Davey [mailto:jashokda at cisco.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:20 AM
> To: Edwin Zoeller
> Cc: Nagios Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Java Process
>
> Hi Edwin
>
> Did you mean that you are using the Process ID of the process running on
>
> the remote box to monitor its status ?
>
> Thanks
> Jatin
>
> On 3/2/2010 8:10 PM, Edwin Zoeller wrote:
>    
>> We monitor the port number assigned to the process.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jim Avery [mailto:jim at jimavery.me.uk]
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:35 AM
>> To: Jatin Davey
>> Cc: Nagios Mailinglist
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Java Process
>>
>> On 2 March 2010 11:26, Jatin Davey<jashokda at cisco.com>   wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I want to know how i can monitor the java process running on remote
>>> box , basically i want to keep monitoring it and raise an email alert
>>>        
>    
>>> if it has re-started or stopped functioning. Please let me know how
>>> this can be achieved using nagios.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Jatin
>>>
>>>        
>> Someone hereabouts recently mentioned you can use jmx4perl
>> http://labs.consol.de/lang/de/jmx4perl/
>>
>> I can't say I've tried it myself yet.
>>
>>
>>      
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>
> If I understand this, you have a java process that you want to monitor.
> To see if the process is 'running' your best bet is using check_proc,
> however, if you want to see if the process is still functioning and not
> hung, you'll need to interact with the process.
>
> As Edwin stated, if your process opens a port, you can connect to it and
> check for a default response using check_tcp (or udp).
>
> If you wrote the java process (or have access to the developers) you can
> ask that they build in monitoring responses.  I have a java listener
> that I added a hook for a specific string.  If I send a specific string
> to its UDP port, it returns it's PID and Timestamp.
>
> What does the Java process do?  If it doesn't open a port, does it write
> to its log that you can check modification times on?
>
> If you can interact with the process you can monitor it.  If it just
> runs and doesn't interact with others, you can at least monitor that the
> process is still running.  In general if you can check its health
> manually, you can write something for Nagios to use.
>
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