UserParameter Weirdness

[dcrandall]

Hi,

I'm have serveral webservers running on a host and I want to know how many processes for each one, so that I'll know if I'm getting close to my limit of 512.

I have this user parameter define on in the zabbix_agentd file on the host i'm monitoring:
UserParameter=www.my.server,ps ax | grep httpd.conf-www.my.server | wc -l

Here is the problem: If I run the command on the command line, I get something like 46.
In the zabbix web interface, it reports 2.

Sometimes if I restart the zabbix_agentd and/or the zabbix_server, it will give me accurate results for a few minutes, then it drops back to single digits. It's almost like there is a multiplier, though i'm positive none are defined.

Help!

Daniel

[dcrandall]

Well, I've discovered that zabbix_agentd thinks the output of the scriptlet is a string rather than a number. Changing the "Type of information" field for the Item doesn't change anything though. (except that now I have "..." after the bad number.)

Anybody have any insight?

d

Hi,

I'm have serveral webservers running on a host and I want to know how many processes for each one, so that I'll know if I'm getting close to my limit of 512.

I have this user parameter define on in the zabbix_agentd file on the host i'm monitoring:
UserParameter=www.my.server,ps ax | grep httpd.conf-www.my.server | wc -l

Here is the problem: If I run the command on the command line, I get something like 46.
In the zabbix web interface, it reports 2.

Sometimes if I restart the zabbix_agentd and/or the zabbix_server, it will give me accurate results for a few minutes, then it drops back to single digits. It's almost like there is a multiplier, though i'm positive none are defined.

Help!

Daniel