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Hello,

I am checking the total number of procs on remote servers via Nagios. But my problems is, there are too many transient warnings about total_number_procs .. I mean, there seem to be a problem but they are all gone in 1 minute.. I am confused and need advice about which parameters I need to check for.. Do I need to change number of total procs in clients nrpe.cfg or some parameters on Nagios server ?

It would be perfect to get alerted when total number of procs exceeds some amount after 2 - 3 minutes for example ?

Any ideas or advices appreciated

Thanks

To provide any value from the total number of procs you'd likely need to use the nproc limits:
That's about all I can think of for just checking the total number of procs.