You are correct , pid's change from to startup to startup but the reason for doing so is that i want to make sure that a process if it starts with some id it stays working as a long as possible and i need to monitor it. The moment it changes the pid then it means that it has either crashed of re-started with some other pid. I could also monitor for the process status using its name , example having to monitor an explorer.exe process instead of its pid but in my test environment i have multiple instances of the same process and i need to make sure all of them keep running. For example i hava 4 java.exe processes that i need to monitor and make sure i have not more or less than 4 java.exe being running at any given time in my server.
Thanks Jatin Wolfe, Robert wrote: > Forgive me, but I am not quite understanding why you are wanting to do this? > Don't PIDs change from program startup to program startup? > > ________________________________________ > From: Jatin Davey [jasho...@cisco.com] > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:10 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a process with its pid > > Let me re-phrase it a little , > > Basically what i want is to give the process id as the input and make > sure on that target machine i have the process with the given id running > , once it stops there might not be the process running with that id and > hence i need to raise an email notification alert. > > Thanks > Jatin > > On 3/8/2010 5:41 PM, Jatin Davey wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> Do we have a plugin that can monitor process id (pid) on a target >> machine , the target machine could be anything such as windows , linux , >> solaris etc and alert with an email notification when the process id >> changes. >> >> Appreciate your responses. >> >> Thanks >> Jatin >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Nagios-users mailing list >> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting >> any issue. >> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null >> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null