[Xymon] monitor runtime of processes

Martin Flemming martin.flemming at desy.de
Mon Oct 27 10:03:11 CET 2014


Thanks, Jeremy & Carl for the hints !

That's will be the way (external process- or logfile/pidfile-monitorscript)

Anyway, i thought there is eventually a built-in function for this ;-)

thanks & cheers

    martin

On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, Jeremy Ruffer wrote:

> What platform are you on?
>
> On Linux you can do
> ps -p<pid> -oetime
> or
> ps -C<backupname> -oetime
>
> You just need an external script to report green if it's not found.  If it's 
> been going over 24 hours then the format is D-HH:MM:SS so you just need to 
> check for the dash then check the number of days.
>
> Jeremy
>
> On 24/10/2014 13:01, martin.flemming at desy.de wrote:
>>
>>  Hi !
>>
>>  Unfortunatley i didn't found a solution for my problem except these
>>  threads, which are not really a soluton :-(
>> 
>> http: //lists.xymon.com/archive/2008-February/017554.html
>> http: //lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-July/037868.html
>>
>>  The question is, if anybody has a idea,
>>  how i can monitor the runtime for certain processes,
>>  preferably with his pid ?
>>
>>  My real problem is, that my backup-system runs at beginning of the months
>>  maybe more than 2 days ... but in the normal way it's runs 2-4 hours ...
>>
>>  So, i want to have a yellow alert after 24 hours and a red alert after 48
>>  hours .. is this possible ?
>>
>>  Thanks & Cheers
>>
>>         Martin
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