It is what I had in mind... and I'd have no objections to using net-snmp to get the job done..... BUT....
As processes spawn and die (whether through SIG_TERM or other means), the OIDs are going to change. The end result is that I don't have a consistent entity to monitor that guarantees the associated process is what I expect. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:WhatsUp_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Shaw > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:47 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Monitoring UNIX Processes > > I am a developer for net-snmp. > > If you look at the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, it lists all running processes. > > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunIndex points to the various running processes > and delivers: > > hrSWRunName > hrSWRunPath > hrSWRunParameters > hrSWRunType > hrSWRunStatus > hrSWRunPerfCPU > hrSWRunPerfMem > > I just had a look at one of my servers, and a defunct process was listed as: > > HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunStatus.283 = INTERGR: invalid(4) > > other processes were listed as runnable(2) or running(1). > > Is that what you had in mind? > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:29 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Monitoring UNIX Processes > > > 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/ > > 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/
