Zenoss 2.3.3 on SLES 10. First problem. I want to define some processes for monitoring but set the default for the process to zMonitor = False in the process definition. I then want to explicitly turn on monitoring for particular devices from the os tab drop-down.
This just doesn't seem to work. I get quirky results. On some devices it works. On others, the process always shows down even when it is up. I get more stability if I turn on the zMonitor flag in the process definition - but then I get process monitoring on devices where I don't want it - with the performance overhead. Second problem. I have a process called named with the regex of named. In the process, I have zMonitor=True (or I suffer from the problem described above). I have Ignore parameters set to True. I get this process appearing for several devices in the os page. One system has /usr/sbin/named -t /var/lib/named -u named running and I get an os entry for /usr/sbin/named - fine. The same box also has /sbin/syslog-ng -a /var/lib/dhcp/dev/log -a /var/lib/named/dev/log running. This also automatically gets added to the os list of processes (as /sbin/syslog) - even though the definition has Ignore parameters set to true! Different systems have named in different paths so I can't easily provide a more specific regex and still get all my real named's. Third problem. What DOES the zCountProcs zProperty do? My named definition has this set to False but if I drill down os-> /usr/sbin/named then I see a graph for the number of procs (incidentally, there are separate graphs for both /usr/sbin/named and /sbin/syslog with different data - it really does seem to be monitoring the syslog process). I can take a local copy of the os process template and add add a threshold on process count but this seems a very cumbersome way of checking how many instances of a process are running - given that we are provided with a zCountProcs zProperty. Any input gratefully received! Cheers, Jane -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=33109#33109 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
