[hobbit] Checking process longevity

[Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 February 2008 8:58 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Checking process longevity
> 
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:07PM +0900, Coe, Colin C. (Unix 
> Engineer) wrote:
> > I do think that there are other cases
> > where monitoring how long a process exists is useful.
> > 
> > I was thinking that this could be done by adding a new flag 
> to 'PROC' in
> > hobbit-clients.cfg.  Something like:
> > 
> > PROC processname minimumcount maximumcount color [TRACK=id] 
> [TEXT=text]
> > [RUNTIME=seconds]
> > 
> > Example, alert if a 'df' has existed for more 60 seconds
> > 
> > HOST foo
> > 	PROC df RUNTIME=60
> 
> Sure. Only problem is: How do you determine how long a process has
> existed ?
> 
> Some systems report the start-time of a process in a separate column
> (START in Linux, STIME in Solaris, ...) Not very accurate, 
> since if they
> were started more than 24 hours ago it shows only the date. I guess we
> could use that.
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 

That sounds great.  Typically, I'm looking for processes existing for 5
minutes.

Thanks

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