Re: pmie spawning more than 1 instance per host

[Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:22 +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> I'm using pmie to monitor about 50 hosts from a central monitor. The
> central monitor is running the pmie_check from /etc/cron.hourly/, 
> and annoyingly it seems to not always be able to detect if an instance
> for a host is already running, so after a few days, I end up with more
> than one pmie per host.
> 
> Anyone else seen this? And maybe have a workaround?

We run a somewhat similar setup (multiple hosts monitored, RHEL4),
and I've never hit this issue.  Can you post your pmie control file
and 'ps -ef | grep pmie' (preferably when multiple pmie instances
incorrectly running)?

cheers.

-- 
Nathan