Does SecuritySpy have any custom daemons or use any specific Apple ones?

PCS
PCS
edited March 2014 in SecuritySpy
Greetings,

I know this is kind of a random question, but we have a remote monitoring software that we are trying to implement on our camera servers to monitor if the software is running. The only option we have is a check that looks to see if a particular daemon is running or not and if not sends out an alert. I've looked through the lists of daemons that it provides us from our Mac mini and I don't see anything having to do with SecuritySpy. Any info you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Ben
    Ben
    Hi - SecuritySpy doesn't run as a daemon and doesn't have any components that run as daemons. I could supply you with some C or AppleScript code to check if a particular application is currently running, if that helps?
  • PCS
    PCS
    That's ok, I just needed to find out if our monitoring software would work for this but it doesn't appear that it will. Thanks for your time.
  • PCS
    PCS
    Ben,

    Could I please get those scripts from you? You can send them to jeremy@poudrecomputer.com. Thanks.
  • Ben
    Ben
    edited August 2014
    Hi - the AppleScript is very simple:

       tell application "System Events"
          (name of processes) contains "SecuritySpy"
       end tell

    This returns "true" or "false" depending on whether SecuritySpy is running.

    Hope this helps!
  • doodah
    doodah
    edited August 2014
    And you can always do "ps -A | grep 'some name here' "at a command prompt and then extrapolate that into some script that tells you is 'some name here' is running or not.... I'm just amazed that somehow not running as a daemon is a bad thing. Or I'm misinterpreting the prior post in some fashion.

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