agent 1.6.1 process number accounting

[ghislain]

hi,

I upgraded to 1.6.1 for my agents and since i see a behavior change.

Until now i was able to monitor spamd process with proc.num[spamd] but now even if /proc/*/status show spamd as the process name zabbix do not see it at all.

It just see a generic "perl" process. This makes monitoring of process quite hard. I tried to use the process name proc.num[,,spamd] but unfortunatly the word 'spamd' appear in quite a lot of related processes command line and so it does not monitor the spamd process only.

So i wonder:

- what changed in the way the agent see the process name ?
- anyone know a way to monitor processes like this ?

regards,
Ghislain.

[ghislain]

humm,

in fact it does not see the perl process either it was another thing (webmin).

proc.num[spamd]
proc.num[perl,root,,spamd]
proc.num[/usr/sbin/spamd]
proc.num[perl,,,spamd]

all return 0 but:


5027 ? Ss 0:11 /usr/sbin/spamd -....
5222 ? Ssl 0:43 /usr/sbin/spamass-milter
6424 ? S 0:43 spamd child
10582 ? S 0:11 spamd child
16251 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep spam

(root)> cat /proc/5027/status
Name: spamd

(root)> cat /proc/5027/cmdline
/usr/sbin/spamd -A 127.0.0.1 --create-prefs --max-children 10 --helper-home-dir --socketpath=/var/run/spamd.sock -d --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid

So i must miss something here ?

regards,
Ghislain.