[Xymon] Include user ID in PROC search string

[Ralph Mitchell]

I think "PROC" only matches on the "CMD" column, which would be why you
can't add in the username.

Recently I needed to check that a given process was only running on *one*
out of a set systems.  I wrote that up as an external script on the Xymon
server itself.  As the xymon user, try this:

     xymon localhost "xymondlog server.domain.com.procs"

to get the process list reported by that server.  You could then do
whatever pattern match you require and send a status message based on that.


Ralph Mitchell


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Ward, Martin <Martin.Ward at colt.net> wrote:

>  Hi all,****
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> 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:****
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> HOST=host1****
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> PROC “amd64/java” 1 1 red****
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> 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:****
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> PROC “%javauser.*amd64/java” 1 1 red****
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> 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.****
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> Am I missing something/doing something wrong or is this the way Xymon
> works?****
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