[Xymon] Include user ID in PROC search string

[Ward, Martin]

Hi all,

I have been trying to persuade Xymon to search for a process and alert on its non-existence, a simple task using the analysis.cfg file like so:

HOST=host1
PROC "amd64/java" 1 1 red

Whilst this has worked previously the developers have now introduced a dependency that the process should only be run by a specific user (i.e. not root). I thought I could get away with:

PROC "%javauser.*amd64/java" 1 1 red

in the expectation that Xymon is testing against the whole of the output from ps(1) and in this case would only match  Java processes run by the javauser user, but sadly this is not the case, I cannot persuade Xymon to match against the process name AND the user who is running it.

Am I missing something/doing something wrong or is this the way Xymon works?

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