You can use the *nix process monitor. I haven't tried it myself but it is basically the same as the NT Process checker, click the ... Button at then end of the "of" field and it should show all processes currently running on the chosen *nix server. Select the relevant /print process to monitor.
The NT process checker doesn't use wildards etc. And I believe for a very good reason if you specifically select a process SA will monitor that process and only that process. If wildcards were allowed then SA would have to iterate through the services and check each and every service with a name vaguely similar to the one you want and will give a down result if one is wrong... Also if wildcards were allowed then potentially a * could mean anything which would never be down as all processes found would be running, anything missing wouldn't be noticed. I hope that this makes sense. Regards Mark Perry -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Passow Sent: 04 August 2006 20:06 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] Monitor linux server Let me start by saying I know next ot nothing about Linux. I am trying to find a way to use Servers Alive to do what I must do manually after a phone call saying stuff isn't working. When a user calls and tells me they are unable to print from our Linux server application to their network printer first thing I must do is go to a shell and run ps-ef | grep \/print. If I am correct this searches for running processes with the command /print in it. Is there a way to monitor such a thing using the *nix process checker? In other wards does the *nix process checker use a substring or a full string or accept wildcards? -- Jason Passow Mississippi Welders Supply [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 "If you do everything right, nobody will realize you've done anything at all." To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
