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As the title of this post suggests, I want to monitor a specific process, and if it is running, make sure it hasn't been running over a certain amount of time. If it is running and has been for too long I want a critical message. Then I'll kick off an event handler to kill the process. Does anyone know of a check that can do what I want?

There are a number of similar plugins on the exchange:
http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... ess%20time

If you are looking to roll your own, stackoverflow had a bunch of different options to check for process time in the following post:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6134 ... ux-process

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... me/details

May have found it myself

Happy hunting!

Thanks abrist. Looks like I was posting my reply as you were posting yours.

Using check_proc_age.sh check instead. Now to modify it to use it as the event handler as well Thanks for the links anyway!

Great! Let us know how this works out for you, it may be something we could document and add along side the basic service check documentation!

No problem. These forum race conditions: not enough F5 mashing I guess
I will lock 'er up.

EDIT: To many smilies in this thread. This is a place of business guys!