topic Re: configuring ps_mon.cfg for nfsd in Operating System - Linux

configuring ps_mon.cfg for nfsd

linux: ps_mon.cfg — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:03:34 GMT

Hi all, on a server linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3) i have to configure monitoring on ITO (OVO) of nfsd. i see the process are listen as [nfsd] if i try to insert the entry in ps_mon.cfg using [ ] i get an sintax error message.
anyone know how to solve the problem ?

regards
Fabrizio Cerliani

Re: configuring ps_mon.cfg for nfsd

Matti_Kurkela — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:34:03 GMT

The man page of the Linux ps command says:
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Sometimes the process args will be unavailable; when this happens, ps will instead print the executable name in brackets.
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So the name of the process is really nfsd (without any brackets).

MK

Re: configuring ps_mon.cfg for nfsd

macosta — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:15:40 GMT

The nfsd processes have brackets around them because they're not user-land processes, but kernel processes. I'm not sure what you're monitoring regarding them, but if they have a problem, you have bigger issues given that they're in kernel-space.