Only difference I see is that State and count of processes have Checktype. But both sections produces same check output. I guess Process discovery uses automatically “ps” on linux.
which section to prefer? Pure linux environment.
next confusion is another “State and count of processes” section in “Setup → Services → Service monitoring rules” which has same parameters to configure except process specification.
Other “State and count of processes” section is in "Setup → Services → Enforced services"
I try to describe the difference between all three.
Process Discovery - rule to find automatically processes on monitored hosts. You can already here define default parameters that should be applied to the found processes.
Service monitoring rules → State and count of processes - only applies parameters to already found process checks. The matching condition here is a name of a discovered process. This discovery is done with discovery rule.
Enforced services → State and count of processes - you define process checks on hosts without discovery. This is useful if you expect a process to run on a system and don’t want to rely on the discovery feature.
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