Question, is there any kind of pluging that will querry top?

agamemnon · May 23, 2005, 2:48pm

I want to querry top and see how many instanances of httpd are running.

luca · May 23, 2005, 3:26pm

top | grep httpd | wc -l

fine tune it a bit to avoid “grep httpd” as a result and use it as an snmp script

Luca

luca · May 23, 2005, 3:28pm

forget that top… it’s “ps -ef”

Luca

jakkedup · May 23, 2005, 4:00pm

If you are speaking of a nagios plugin, just use the check_procs plugin.

agamemnon · May 23, 2005, 4:19pm

ah hah cool, yah check_procs -u www (since apache runs as www) works great!

Thanks for the tip.