On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:47:07PM +0900, Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) wrote:
I do think that there are other cases where monitoring how long a process exists is useful.
I was thinking that this could be done by adding a new flag to 'PROC' in hobbit-clients.cfg. Something like:
PROC processname minimumcount maximumcount color [TRACK=id] [TEXT=text] [RUNTIME=seconds]
Example, alert if a 'df' has existed for more 60 seconds
HOST foo PROC df RUNTIME=60
Sure. Only problem is: How do you determine how long a process has existed ?
Some systems report the start-time of a process in a separate column (START in Linux, STIME in Solaris, ...) Not very accurate, since if they were started more than 24 hours ago it shows only the date. I guess we could use that.
Regards, Henrik