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SSH Script to monitor process in linux

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This isn't a question, it's a share - wasn't sure how to share something the community. I was looking for a way to monitor a given process in Linux (specifically Ubuntu.) I used to use Xymon which allowed me to set a min/max number of a process and alert based on that; wanted something like that for PRTG. After some research I really couldn't find what I was looking for, so I made it myself.

  1. !/bin/sh

ProcCount=$(ps -e | grep $1 | wc -l) echo "0:$ProcCount:Found $ProcCount of $1 running"

give it a name and save it in /var/prtg/scripts on the linux system you want to monitor. Then create a SSH Script sensor for that machine and select the script you just made; set the 'parameters' to be the name of the process to check then edit the alerting to set your high/low limits.

The script just does a simple process count and returns the number found.

check count linux process running script ssh ubuntu

Created on Jun 30, 2018 1:27:41 PM



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Hi there,

Thanks for sharing your solution! We have a similar approach by using SNMP instead:
https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/29403-monitoring-processes-in-linux

Best regards.

Created on Jul 2, 2018 8:22:55 AM by Dariusz Gorka [Paessler Support]




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