Monitoring a process with its pid

[Jatin]

You are correct , pid's change from to startup to startup but the reason 
for doing so is that i want to make sure that a process if it starts 
with some id it stays working as a long as possible and i need to 
monitor it. The moment it changes the pid then it means that it has 
either crashed of re-started with some other pid. I could also monitor 
for the process status using its name , example having to monitor an 
explorer.exe process instead of its pid but in my test environment i 
have multiple instances of the same process and i need to make sure all 
of them keep running. For example i hava 4 java.exe processes that i 
need to monitor and make sure i have not more or less than 4 java.exe 
being running at any given time in my server.

Thanks
Jatin

Wolfe, Robert wrote:
> Forgive me, but I am not quite understanding why you are wanting to do this?  Don't PIDs change from program startup to program startup?
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Jatin Davey [jashokda at cisco.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:10 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a process with its pid
>
> Let me re-phrase it a little ,
>
> Basically what i want is to give the process id as the input and make
> sure on that target machine i have the process with the given id running
> , once it stops there might not be the process running with that id and
> hence i need to raise an email notification alert.
>
> Thanks
> Jatin
>
> On 3/8/2010 5:41 PM, Jatin Davey wrote:
>   
>> Hi All
>>
>> Do we have a plugin that can monitor process id (pid) on a target
>> machine , the target machine could be anything such as windows , linux ,
>> solaris etc and alert with an email notification when the process id
>> changes.
>>
>> Appreciate your responses.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Jatin
>>
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