Hello,

How do I monitor Apache or other applications running on linux server be monitored in PRTG ? This is already been monitored in other monitoring tool successfully.

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Hi,
the processes created by the different applications can be monitored. For details see the article How to monitor Linux processes.
Best regards


Jun, 2013 - Permalink

I wrote a custom sensor that I pass the name of the process I want to monitor. The script the checks ps eah and ubuntu services to return either 1 or 0 depending on if its found.

Pretty easy to do in python or bash.


Jun, 2013 - Permalink

@Kghunt: Would you mind sharing the script here in this post? That would be awesome! :)


Jun, 2013 - Permalink