Re: [Bigsister-general] process monitor: what about whitespace etc.

[Tom Van Overbeke <suppressed>]

hi,

using your example, i created something similar:

/tmp/pself
contents:

#!/bin/bash
ps -elf



it chmod'ed it 777, so bigsis user can run it (verified ok).

then i put this line in uxmon-net:

localhost       pscomm=/tmp/pself proc=bash procs

i restart the script, and on another window, i monitor the process list to
see what kind of processes get executed when i restart the client.

and to my surprise, it's not /tmp/pself, but it's always the same process:

root      4815  4733  0 17:58 pts/0    00:00:00 sh -c ps cax 2>/dev/null


any ideas ?


i'm using version 0.98c8-2

thanks,

tom.

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Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Bigsister-general] process monitor: what about whitespace etc.



You can specify an alternative command  to the procs check.  I have to
distinguish between specific Java processes which are all just "java" and
where the significant bit of the command line is after hundreds of
characters of options.  I wrote a little bit of perl that searches the
whole output of a "ps -ef --width 10000" and converts it into a meaningful
name e.g.:


In uxmon-net:

localhost       pscomm=/opt/bin/bsps proc=jboss min=1 max=999 procs

The bsps script looks like e.g. this, feel free to plagiarise if it is
useful to you:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# Define search strings and meaningful process names
%subs =
(
        "postmaster" => "PostgreSQL",
        "postgres: stats buffer" => "pgstatsbuff",
        "postgres: stats collector" => "pgstatscoll",
        "ns-slapd" => "LDAP",
        "smbd" => "Samba",
        "nmbd" => "NetBIOS",
        "httpd" => "Apache",
        "org.jboss.Main" => "jboss",
        "su - swiftmq -c" => "swiftmq",
);

@lines = `ps -ef --width 10000`;
foreach( @lines )
{
        chomp;
        $comm = $_;
        ($f1,$f2,$f3,$f4,$f5,$f6,$f7,$f8) = split( /[\s\t]+/, $comm );
        $gotit = 0;
        while ( ($ss,$sub) = each %subs )
        {
                if( $comm =~ /$ss/ )
                {
                        $f8 = $sub;
# Do not break out of the loop coz it goes wrong next
# time around!
#                       last;
                }
        }
        print( "$f2 $f6 $f7 $f8\n");
}


Regards,
- Pat




                    Tom Van Overbeke
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                    29/03/2004 14:16







yes, it was a type. it was "postgres: comfire"

i've been doing a lot of tests, and i'm not even sure if what i want is
possible: i just want to check for the string 'postgres: comfire' in the
output of a ps -ef command.

my last try was this:

localhost       pscomm="ps -ef" proc=comfire procs

the output from ps -ef | grep comfire is this:

postgres  1216   681  0 Mar09 ?        00:00:00 postgres: comfire comfire
127.0.0.1 idle
postgres  1218   681  0 Mar09 ?        00:00:00 postgres: comfire comfire
127.0.0.1 idle
postgres  1219   681  0 Mar09 ?        00:00:00 postgres: comfire comfire
127.0.0.1 idle
postgres  1220   681  0 Mar09 ?        00:00:00 postgres: comfire comfire
127.0.0.1 idle
postgres  1221   681  0 Mar09 ?        00:00:00 postgres: comfire comfire
127.0.0.1 idle

what i can see in the status.log file is this:

status.log.0:1080552987 209.28.229.73: status+11 ccntst2m1.procs red
(1080552987) Mon Mar 29 11:36:27 2004 &red comfire(10) (no process)|>&green
sshd (3 instances)

any ideas if the procs check can search for a string in the ps output, or
does it really need to be exactly the name of a proces ?


oh and does anyone have an idea what's up with the mailing list archive on
on sourceforge.net ? the archive is not available apparently (and
sourceforge.net has been extremely slow the last few days).



----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai Schaetzl" <suppressed>
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Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Bigsister-general] process monitor: what about whitespace
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> Tom Van Overbeke wrote on Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:35:48 +0200:
>
> > localhost     alternate=yes proc="postgres=: comfire"(10) procs.
> >
>
> Is the "=" in there a typo? How does it appear in top? Possibly only
> "postgres"? I use the name from top for monitoring and that always works.
> Btw: the output for "ps ex" looks much different on my systems.
>
>
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