[hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long

[Galen Johnson]

When they said too long, I didn't think they meant a smaller font (those of you who received the previous email in html know what I'm talking about. ;-)

=G=
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From: Sheets, Jerald [Jerald.Sheets at turner.com]
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:32 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long

Interesting.

I was just checking out the output in Xymon 4.3.0-0.beeta2, and the process listing under "procs" is not truncated at all for me.

I was about to setup a new check, and see what I could come up with, and I happened to catch the Xymon command that was run in that process listing, and it was:


ps -Aww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd


Good catch!

Jerald Sheets
Sr. Systems Engineer
CNN News Systems
? Jerald.Sheets at turner.com
• 404.878.0566  È404.293.8762

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From: Brand, Thomas R. [mailto:TRBrand at cvs.com]
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:27 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long

From: Cayo de Moraes [mailto:camorae at googlemail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:12 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long

Hello guys,

im having some problems to monitor processes with a long output (most of them are java processes). Hobbit seems to cut the output at certain size and i have to look for a string which appears at the end of the output.

where can i change this length limit?


I had the same problem, also with java processes.

Assuming you are using Linux, look in the ~hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient-linux.sh, look for the line
echo "[ps]"

Change the ‘ps ‘ command which follows according to your systems requirements.
For example, under SLES, I had to add ‘ww’ and changee it to:
ps -Aww -o pid,ppid,user,start,state,pri,pcpu,time,pmem,rsz,vsz,cmd



Tom Brand
Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely wrong, 3) my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying for it, or your money cheerfully refunded.