If all you want is to watch the raw number of processes, you could  
graph the output of an ssh call to 'ps | wc' as a gauge and set  
thresholds as necessary.

Thanks,
Matt Ray
Zenoss Community Manager
community.zenoss.com
[email protected]




On Apr 1, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Todd Anderson wrote:

> What is the best way to alert on an change in the number of OS  
> processes. Zenoss keeps nice graphs on the number of running  
> processes and their memory usage, but i really need to be able to  
> alert when the number of processes change.
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