Re: pmie spawning more than 1 instance per host

[Michael Newton <kimbrr@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Nathan Scott wrote:
> 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)?

I got it, thanks
Dr.Michael("Kimba")Newton  kimbrr@xxxxxxx