ID: 1563
Title: Reworked configuration of process monitoring
Component: Checks & Agents
Level: 2
Class: Bug Fix
Version: 1.2.5i7
The configuration of the monitoring of processes has been reworked. This was
mainly to overcome a bug: when the process check was used on a cluster then
the check parameters would be taken randomly from one of the nodes.
The new process monitoring works like this:
H2:Static checks
Statically configured checks are like before. They are configured via the ruleset
<i>State and count of processes</i>.
H2:Checks created by service discovery
The ruleset <i>Process Inventory</i> now does not set parameters (levels)
for the created services anymore. Only the settings for matching process
names and user remain - and of course the service description.
The new ruleset <i>State and count of processes</i> in the section
<i>Parameters for inventorized checks</i> (please do not mix up with static
checks here) is used for defining levels for the count, CPU usage, averaging
and all of the other parameters. The default is to make the check OK if at
least one process is being found. So from now on if you are using process
inventory with custom levels, you need to make configurations in <i>both
rulesets</i>.
On the other hand that can make things easier for you. You might have a lot
of rulesets for detecting various processes but then only need a few rules
for setting levels for these services.
In order to make the migration easier services that have already been created
with previous versions of Check_MK will remain to work as they did. But
after a new service discovery the levels will vanish and then you have to
configure them in the new extra ruleset.
Please note: the ruleset <i>State and count of processes</i> does contain the
settings for matching the process and the user even when used for discovered
checks. The reason is that it is the same ruleset as for manual checks.
Setting these parameters do not make sense here in most cases. Simply leave
them unchecked.
H2:Performance data - ps versus ps.perf
The check <tt>ps.perf</tt> is now deprecated. The normal
<tt>ps</tt> check now
does <i>always</i> create performance data. For compatibility reasons the old
<tt>ps.perf</tt> is still defined but does exactly the same as
<tt>ps</tt>
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