Re: [monit] Can monit monitor multiple processes with the same name?

[Martin Pala]

Yes, if you will have one parent process which is common to all "abcdef" 
processes. The "totalcpu" statement then allows to sum CPU usage of all 
process' children - you won't watch the "abcdef" processes PID but the parent 
process' PID (this is similar to Apache  process based worker model)

Regards,
Martin

On Mar 9, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Bill Benedetto wrote:

> Good day.
> 
> I use monit (mostly) to watch my desktop systems and watch for
> long-running, cpu-eating programs.
> 
> My stanza of interest looks like this:
> 
>  check process abcdef with pidfile /var/run/abcdef.pid
>    alert address@hidden but not on { Nonexist }
>    stop program = "/bin/bash -c 'kill `cat /var/run/abcdef.pid`'"
>    if cpu usage > 22% for 64 cycles then stop
> 
> My abcdef process doesn't create a pidfile, so I have a cronjob
> that runs a few times per hour and looks for the abcdef process,
> creating a pidfile, and then tickling monit to take a look.
> 
> This works great for me.  However (you knew there had to be a
> "however"), I sometimes have multiple abcdef processes on the
> same machine.  monit DOES clean them up eventually, but just one
> at a time since I can only watch one abcdef.pid.  (There's a
> secondary problem that if I have, for example, 2 abcdef processes
> running concurrently, they might each take 12% of the cpu and
> thus monit never kills either one.)
> 
> Is there a way I can set monit up so that it is able to monitor
> multiple abcdef processes concurrently?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> - Bill
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> 
> 
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