this strikes me as a bug....but what do i know. zenoss 2.2.0, centos 5.1. since 
i'm still learning the software, i figured 'hey, why don't i monitor sendmail 
on the mta farm we have?'. great idea. create 'sendmail' on the /processes 
page. remodel one of the mta servers, it picks up a boatload of sendmail 
processes. lovely! oops - it seems it interprets each instance uniquely - so

sendmail: qdir.0/m5A8CCYj020927 live.net.: user open

is picked up - then when that instance dies off (because the mail's been 
delivered), i start getting alerts. oh noes!

so, smart guy goes to the /processes page, and deletes sendmail there, and 
remodels the mta server. no more sendmail processes on the device OS page. that 
should do it, right? nope. i keep getting alerts. wtf? i poke and prod, i 
remodel, i restart zenoss, but can't seem to stop the alerts. finally, this 
morning, it dawns on me. recreate 'sendmail' under /processes. remodel the mta 
server. the device shows a bunch of sendmail processes again. okay. delete all 
those processes on the OS tab, then go to the /processes page, and *then* 
delete sendmail there. the alerts stop. 

this *seems* like a bug to me. continuing to get alerts for processes being 
down, when they don't show up on the OS process list for the device. it's kind 
of like something stays in place in the code, but hidden from view.

am i right, or is that desired behavior?




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