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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well... I have nrpe running on the box where I want
this process monitored. So perhaps I didn't explain well enough. The check I
need for the named process is easy enough using check_nrpe/nrpe and the
check_total_procs plugin with the -c "command name" for the process
itself. So the check is working fine but even when it fails basd on my
threshold values for the # of these processes I want to see, the state change is
only SOFT - critical. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does that make more sense?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--p</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mkoponick@redhawk.info href="mailto:mkoponick@redhawk.info">Mike
Koponick</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=plauda@rx30.com
href="mailto:plauda@rx30.com">Peter Lauda</A> ; <A
title=nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 30, 2006 4:27
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] Force
notification?</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’m sure others may
have more information, but in order to create a notification you need to
“create” a hard state change. Having said that, you would need to run some
sort of check command that would check what you wanted, in your case it would
be a number of named process.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mike</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">-----Original
Message-----<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> <A
href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</A>
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Peter Lauda<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:23
PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Nagios-users] Force
notification?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> have read as much doc on
notifications as I can find. Everything refers to the idea that Nagios will
send notifications for hosts or service that experience a HARD state change.
Well, Ok... but I want to monitor a service, say a process by name on an nrpe
monitored server. If the number of that named process drops below X I want to
get a notification. Is this possible or is there some way that I can force
that situation to CREATE a HARD state change? I always see it in the logs as a
SOFT change and of course, no notification. </SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Any advice very much
welcome.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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