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I have had process monitoring in place for awhile, it monitors java processes and the time they have been up!. I have been using the check_proc_age plugin and it was working perfectly! We recently added another application that runs a java process and it runs as an agent, but know the monitoring numbers are skewed by an additional processes as well as it reports as the oldest! How can I get back to monitoring the 2 specific java instances without havaing to stop the agent from running (or excluding this one from the plugin)? Any help would be greatly appreciated on this one. I looked in the exchange but there is not a plugin for this already in place

Nagios XI 2014R1.3

Do you have a link to the check_proc_age plugin? Maybe there is a usage flag to exclude processes by name or regex.

The plugin will not work even if you give the full path for the process and user account it still sees all 3 process from the same path and the same user. So its back to the drawing board to monitor the homegrown application. Unlees anyone has some input:

Example I have an running twice so there are 2 java processes running
We used to check for the java processes and check the age and after a set time it would alert (basically to say the process needed to be restarted, because the automation didnt run)
Newly added Sumo Logic agent now adds a third java process and will always have the lomgest runtime as it runs as an agent!

Well, again I'd be happy to look over check_proc_age, maybe there is a small tweak we can do to make it suite your needs. Otherwise is this a windows or linux system, maybe we know of something that will do this already.