[Xymon] monitor runtime of processes

[Martin Flemming]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Betsy Schwartz wrote:

> I have a script that does that, I'll upload it

by the way, where you will upload it,

https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors ?


thanks & cheers,


martin

> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> wrote:
>
>       Thanks, Jeremy & Carl for the hints !
>
>       That's will be the way (external process- or logfile/pidfile-monitorscript)
>
>       Anyway, i thought there is eventually a built-in function for this ;-)
>
>       thanks & cheers
>
>          martin
>
>       On Sat, 25 Oct 2014, Jeremy Ruffer wrote:
>
>             What platform are you on?
>
>             On Linux you can do
>             ps -p<pid> -oetime
>             or
>             ps -C<backupname> -oetime
>
>             You just need an external script to report green if it's not found.  If it's been going over 24 hours then the format is D-HH:MM:SS so you just need to check for the dash then check the number of days.
>
>             Jeremy
>
>             On 24/10/2014 13:01, martin.flemming at desy.de wrote:
>
>                    Hi !
>
>                    Unfortunatley i didn't found a solution for my problem except these
>                    threads, which are not really a soluton :-(
>
>                   http: //lists.xymon.com/archive/2008-February/017554.html
>                   http: //lists.xymon.com/archive/2013-July/037868.html
>
>                    The question is, if anybody has a idea,
>                    how i can monitor the runtime for certain processes,
>                    preferably with his pid ?
>
>                    My real problem is, that my backup-system runs at beginning of the months
>                    maybe more than 2 days ... but in the normal way it's runs 2-4 hours ...
>
>                    So, i want to have a yellow alert after 24 hours and a red alert after 48
>                    hours .. is this possible ?
>
>                    Thanks & Cheers
>
>                           Martin
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