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Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:20 am**

Running Nagios 5.6.10 on RHEL 7 VMs. Using Test11 as the variable, but in our environment, it really appears as a Java process with the variable =SomeOtherProcess.

Can anyone see what may be happening to cause this to always return a 0 instead of 2?

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check_ncpa.py -H HOST -t SUPERSECRETPASSWORD -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-aTest11 ' -c 1 '"
PROCS OK: 0 processes with args 'Test11' | procs=0; -c 1 ;;0;

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check_ncpa.py -H HOST -t SUPERSECRETPASSWORD -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-aTest11 ' -c 1:1 '"
PROCS OK: 0 processes with args 'Test11' | procs=0; -c 1 ;;0;

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check_ncpa.py -H HOST -t SUPERSECRETPASSWORD -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-a=Test11 ' -c 1 '"
PROCS OK: 0 processes with args 'Test11' | procs=0; -c 1 ;;0;

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check_ncpa.py -H HOST -t SUPERSECRETPASSWORD -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-a=Test11 ' -c 1:1 '"
PROCS OK: 0 processes with args 'Test11' | procs=0; -c 1 ;;0;

Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:16 pm**

What's the full command-line path of the Java process as it shows up on the RHEL7 server? Please post the output of this command:

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ps -A x -f |grep java

What happens to the output inside Nagios XI if you were to change the check_procs call to only return the number of java processes running? I.e.

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check_ncpa.py -H HOST -t SUPERSECRETPASSWORD -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-Cjava ' -c 1 '"

Posted: **Mon Nov 02, 2020 4:36 pm**

./check_ncpa.py -H HOST -t SuperSecretPassword -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-Cjava ' -c 1 '"
PROCS WARNING: 22 processes with command name 'java' | procs=22; -c 1 ;;0;

PM'd the command line of the java process

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 3:42 pm**

If you're testing for a process running the command line, e.g.:

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java -Dweblogic.Name=xxxxxxxxxxx [...]

Then you can use the "check_procs" plugin with args=-aweblogic.Name=xxxxxxxxxxx to test if it's running.

If you want to throw a CRITICAL when the process isn't running, then use this syntax:

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check_ncpa.py -H XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -t TOKEN -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-aweblogic.Name=xxxxxxxxxxx 0 0"

Furthermore, you can customize how many matching processes should be running, throw a warning if there's < 2, and a critical if there's < 1:

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check_ncpa.py -H XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -t TOKEN -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-aweblogic.Name=xxxxxxxxxxxx -c 1: -w 2:"

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:11 pm**

Ok, I got it to work with the following format:

check_ncpa.py -H HOST -t SUPERSECRETPASSWORD -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-aTest11 -c 1:1 "

Please go ahead and remove the servername arguments from your reply if possible. Our IT Security department doesn't want this on the Forum.

Also, you can close this post.

Posted: **Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:19 pm**

hbouma wrote:Ok, I got it to work with the following format:

check_ncpa.py -H HOST -t SUPERSECRETPASSWORD -M 'plugins/check_procs' -q "args=-aTest11 -c 1:1 "

Please go ahead and remove the servername arguments from your reply if possible. Our IT Security department doesn't want this on the Forum.

Also, you can close this post.

Great! Made the changes, locking thread

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