Comments on: Process Check Plugin for Nagios

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 25 May 2010 09:39:38 +0000

Thanks for this script, great work!

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:41:40 +0000

Hi Mike , Nice script works perfect. I have only one issue
how do I use it on a remote host not -H like the scripts I know off , remote execute works perfect but nagios doesn’t understand ? thanks a lot for your help
Cheers Rob de Jongh

By: Thomas R

Thomas R — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:13:51 +0000

I finally succeed in using your plugin with nrpe. However in my nagios dashboard, it seems that the results are the same for all services I monitored even if I used different process name. Do you have an idea of where it may come from ?

By: Thomas R

Thomas R — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:58:02 +0000

I used your plugin to monitor remote host with nrpe and it does not work. Do you have an idea where it may come from ?

By: Thomas R.

Thomas R. — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:36:29 +0000

I am new in the monitoring business and succeed in installing nagios/cacti/pnp but do not know yet to use them. Indeed, I want to monitor (CPU,Memory and VMemory into graph)three processes of one server. I was sure that it was possible and began to give up hope before I google your blog. Can you help me please ?
I want to know :
1) how to integrate for instance your plugin check_ps to nagios
2) how to collect the datas in pnp or cacti ?
3) Is it working to monitor processes on windows machine ?

Thanks for your help

By: Mirjam

Mirjam — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:51:58 +0000

I just want to thank you for the good scripts!

By: Mike Adolphs

Mike Adolphs — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:55:25 +0000

Thank you Joao for mentioning the bug and sorry for my late answer. I’m just a little busy at the moment since everyone else is on holiday! ;-)

I fixed it in the article, will fix it on the exchanges as well.

By: Joao Correia

Joao Correia — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:26:33 +0000

Link 212 check_ps has an extra ] that makes the script create invalid perfdata !

By: Joao Correia

Joao Correia — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:55:56 +0000

Hello Mike,

Hey Im not getting valid perfdata … any ideas ?
Thanks

2009-07-28 15:55:00 [11104] [2] Template is check_ps.php
2009-07-28 15:55:00 [11104] [2] No pattern match in function _parse(] )
2009-07-28 15:55:00 [11104] [1] Invalid Perfdata detected

By: Mike Adolphs

Mike Adolphs — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:56:05 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Always good to hear that someone has a use for it.

This “&”-thing is probably the following sed command. It adds square brackets around the first letter to filter out the grep when grepping for a specific process.

echo ${process} | sed 's/^.\|[a-z][A-Z] /\[&]/g'