[SA-list] *NIX Process Check

[Scott Banyas]

On a Linux box we have a cron setup to run every 5 minutes that performs some external monitoring on our WAN. Because it is a cron, if the previous job runs over the 5 minutes, a new instance will be launched. Then we have 2 of the same jobs running. If/when we have a WAN outage, there can be numerous numbers of these instances running. We are utilizing the *NIX Process Check add-on to alert us when we have 10 or more instances of this cronjob running. It works well.

What I am wondering is if the number of processes is returned in a variable that I can use in my alerting? I can see in the log file that the number of processes meeting our "requirement" is returned. I'd like to be able to alert with the specific number and possibly use RRD to graph the values (for possible trending).

Can this be accomplished?

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Scott

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