<!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 6.00.2900.3395" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=225322707-05092008>Hi all,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=225322707-05092008></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3>Shankar Asam<SPAN class=225322707-05092008> wrote:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3><SPAN class=225322707-05092008>> </SPAN>I've few of HP UX and Linux boxes that were monitored by Nagios. for the past few days, I've observed that cron service on HP UX keeps shutting down and I need to manually restart cron <SPAN class=225322707-05092008> </SPAN>service. Is there any way through nagios we can monitor cron service on HP UX or Linux boxes so I can login before no one compliance and restart the service?</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=225322707-05092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>You may install Net-SNMP (former UCD-SNMP) and put a line like "proc cron" in /etc/snmpd.conf.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=225322707-05092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=225322707-05092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Create a checkcommand "check_netsnmp_proc" in Nagios which executes "$USER1$/check_netsnmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C $ARG1$ -o proc".</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=225322707-05092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Then create a service for this host in Nagios, which checks with the above checkcommand all the running processes on this host.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=225322707-05092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=225322707-05092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If you like you can put some more proc... lines into snmpd.conf and check for more than one process.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=225322707-05092008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR> <P><FONT size=2>--<BR><SPAN class=225322707-05092008>Greetings from Weimar / Germany</SPAN></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2><SPAN class=225322707-05092008></SPAN>Thomas Voigt<BR></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>