Re: functional testing

[Martin Pala]

Hello Viktor,

the process test just checks whether the process is running (present in the 
process table) and also zombie status is checked + there are process activity 
tests like CPU usage, memory usage, network and unix socket tests, log file 
tests, file/directory timestamp tests, etc.

There is currently no support for sending a signal to the process as part of 
tests - sending a signal to the process is one-way asynchronous mechanism, the 
sender is not notified when the process handled the signal (some processes may 
probably log some message).

A more general approach for observing process activity would be to trace the 
process system calls or using DTrace/kprobes API on platforms which support it 
(it will have also a side-effect - will slow down the traced process little 
bit).

Best regards,
Martin


> On 20 May 2016, at 10:16, SZÉPE Viktor <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Good morning!
> 
> I've found the Monit tests several things for a process: binary file, config 
> file, pid file, process existence etc.
> 
> Should I use additionally a "Does it respond?" test like kill -0 $PID or is 
> it included?
> 
> Thank you.
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