<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.3790.218" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=871352511-24052007>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=871352511-24052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=871352511-24052007>I found the reason for the behaviour.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=871352511-24052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT><SPAN class=871352511-24052007> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><EM>"Oracle have a process naming mechanism that enables you to distinguish between multiple instances of the database. With Oracle, when you open an instance, the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle executable renames itself using the UNIX environment variable ORACLE_SID for a given database. This variable is used in generating Oracle process names: ora_process_name_$ORACLE_SID."</EM></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><EM><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></EM></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><SPAN class=871352511-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So is there a away to monitor process (using the process name) as they appear in 'ps -ef' output?</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><SPAN class=871352511-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><SPAN class=871352511-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=338452510-24052007><SPAN class=871352511-24052007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ajay</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>M V Ajay (vMoksha)<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 23, 2007 6:41 PM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] check_procs through nrpe gives wrong results<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Hi,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>I am monitoring a Redhat enterprise Linux 4 server running oracle using Nagios and NRPE.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>When I monitor Oracle PMON process (ora_pmon_orcldb) on the server I get the message that 'PROCS CRITICAL: 0 processes with command name 'ora_pmon_orcldb''.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>I have confirmed that process 'ora_pmon_orcldb' is actually running on the remote server. The same type of monitoring works for other processes such as 'httpd'.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Nagios command definition:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>define command {<BR> command_name nrpe_check_procs3<BR> command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -n -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_procs3 -a $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $ARG3$<BR> }</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>NRPE configuration:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier">dont_blame_nrpe=1</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier">command[check_procs3]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -C $ARG3$</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier">From the command line I see the following message:</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier"></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Courier">[nagios@nagiosserver ~]$ /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H oracleserver -n -c check_procs3 -a 1:4 1:8 ora_pmon_orcldb<BR>PROCS CRITICAL: 0 processes with command name 'ora_pmon_orcldb'<BR></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Any idea what is wrong?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007>Ajay</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=105512816-23052007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=1><BR> <HR> Legal Notice: This electronic mail and its attachments are intended solely for the person(s) to whom they are addressed and contain information which is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure, except for the purpose for which they are intended. 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