Re: Suggested way of monitoring processes?

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:32:51 -0600 (CST), 
Alan Bailey <abailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I'm looking to monitor a few things that aren't currently a part of the
>PCP pmdas.  I want to check to make sure that a few important processes
>are running on the host being logged.  These would be things like inetd,
>sshd, and other processes.  I figure there might be two ways of doing
>this.
>
>2. I could utilize the current proc.psinfo.pid pmda that returns the whole
>process tree, and see if they are running by parsing through that.

I am reliably informed that pmie is designed to do this type of work.
You write pmie rules that check the resources you are interested in and
issue an alarm if they are missing.