By process monitoring, I mean that I want to see if a process is running or dead (either by virtue of not in the current running process list or being in the "zombie" state). We are using net-snmp as the SNMP daemon on these boxes.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:WhatsUp_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Shaw > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:56 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Monitoring UNIX Processes > > What exactly do you mean by "process monitoring"? What SNMP daemon are you > using on your Sun servers? > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Monitoring UNIX Processes > > > Long story short... I want to consolidate the number of monitoring > applications our organization is using. One section of the house is > using WhatsUp and the other is using Nagios. The big beef is that > WhatsUp can't monitor UNIX processes and doesn't do escalation. > > I haven't been able to find anything to suggest that WhatsUp can do > process monitoring on a UNIX box. I can do it if the process registers > with SNMP or opens a socket for communication, but not all of the > processes necessary to monitor do that. > > So, does WhatsUp support this functionality natively? If not, are there > 3rd party apps that plug into WhatsUp that will provide this > functionality? > > Thanks! > -- Dave > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is > addressed, and may contain confidential, personal and or privileged > information. Please contact us immediately if you are not the intended > recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action > relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, > should be deleted or destroyed. > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
