Can applications running on linux server be monitored in PRTG ?
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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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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
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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