identify and display name of process running

kdomelia

I have posted about this before, but its was never answered and so I thought I would repost within APM as that is more appropriate.

We have a legacy monitoring system from Quest software called Big Brother - it mostly defunct these days as we got only the basic version and Solarwinds wipes the floor with it as it has not only better GUI but also charts among the most obvious differences.

However, one thing stopping me from getting rid of it, is the ability to monitor and show the name of the multiple instances of given process on our server, multiple Solaris10 Sparc and even more linux (RH, CentOS variants -  with net-snmp running)

I enclose a screen capture from big brother which should explain it better than my I could in writing

The screen shows the names of the same process running multiple instances on the same machine, this is pretty much the same for various parts of the trading enviroment, so in this instance the process is called theod and as you can see we have on lcmrst7, 23 instances active

In Solarwinds, the best I can achieve when viewing are simply the same process named theod and the associated PID's, which is great, but it means using SW and BB to find out a that a process has died....it would be more elegant and timely if the apm for SW showed on the node or nodeAPM page

 

 

 

I look forward to any responses

 

sincerely

Kieran Omelia

bobross

Just change the "Component Name" to reflect the name of the process.

 

Alternatively, you can build a custom script that will return additional data in the Message field.  Something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $search = $ARGV[0];

my $process = `ps -ef |egrep -v 'grep|perl' | grep $search`;
my @searches = split('\n', $process);

if ( $?  ==  0 )
{
     print "Message: $process & $?\n";
     print "Statistic: 0";
     exit 0;
}
else
{
     print "Message: Process $search Not Found\n";
     print "Statistic: 1";
     exit 1;
}

Which returns the data you would see running a ps -ef in the Message field which can be viewed from the APM page:

root 24065 1 0 Nov 19 ? 0:01 /opt/apache2/bin/httpd -k start