[dthacker]

This is not purely pSeries, so if the editor needs to move it, thats ok. I'm working with a managed systems provider that is using Tivoli to monitor AIX and Red Hat Linux boxes. On one of the Red Hat boxes wer're getting an alarm on a "stopped" linux process, "hald-addon-storage". The alarm looks like this:

17:05CDT:   Linux_Process_stopped[(State<>Running AND State<>Sleeping) ON myserverl:  LZ ON hald-addon-stor (State=Disk State=Disk  )] 

It's not running, and it's not sleeping, but I don't think it's a zombie either. Take a look a the process table.

root      2329  2299  0 14:02 pts/1    00:00:00 grep hald
68       30455     1  0 10:15 ?        00:00:00 hald
root     30456 30455  0 10:15 ?        00:00:00 hald-runner
68       30462 30456  0 10:15 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
68       30465 30456  0 10:15 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1
68       30469 30456  0 10:15 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0
68       30477 30456  0 10:15 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event2
root     30483 30456  0 10:15 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0
root     30485 30456  0 10:15 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdc

We tried a haldaemon restart but that didn't seem to help. Production does not want to reboot the machine, so I think we are going to need to ignore hald. Is there a way to customize a Tivoli "situation" to ignore a process with this behavior?

TIA Dave