Package: needrestart Version: 2.1-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream
Hi. It would be great if a (ideally C or C++) Icinga/Nagios plugin could be written, that can be used to check a system for processes needed to be restarted. Ideas for that could include the following: - Use the performance data field to report the number of: - user processes - root processes - other system users (i.e. not normal users not root) processes - "the number of" kernel(s) to be restarted (i.e. 0 or 1). that are currently to be restarted. This allows a site to monitor its node and the up-to-date-or-not history - option switches to the plugin that allows to enable/disable checking for each: - root processes - user processes - other system users (i.e. not normal users not root) processes - and include/exclude list of uids and/or gids, which are checked - the kernel - perhaps things like the min. age of a process, before it would trigger a warning/error for the plugin - if it should ever become easily possible to determine whether the process needed to be restarted contained security updates since, one could e.g. make such process and Icinga/Nagios error, and all other processes (needed to be restarted, but without security issues) a warning. Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
