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

[Cayo de Moraes]

thanks for this solution guys... now i have to fight a litle bit with the
syntax under Unix AIX 5.3... its unfortunately not the same as in Linux




2009/11/23 Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com>

> no, your ps statement was REALLY tiny in the email I responded to.  In
> plain text, it looks normal.
>
> =G=
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Sheets, Jerald [Jerald.Sheets at turner.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:59 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long
>
> Well, I would've figured that if it was wrapping, it would actually be
> easier to find the string he's looking for at the end of the Java line.  If
> it was truncating, he wasn't getting it at all.
>
> Did I err in that assumption somewhere?
>
> --j
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Galen Johnson [mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 3:19 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] Procs --> output of a process from ps -ef is too long
>
> 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=
> ________________________________________
> 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
>
> ________________________________
> 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)
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> money cheerfully refunded.
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