Zookeeper is just a Java process and when you start a Zookeeper instance it runs a org.apache.zookeeper.server.quorum.QuorumPeerMain
class. So you can check for a running Zookeeper like this:
jps -l | grep zookeeper
or even like this:
jps | grep Quorum
upd:
regarding this: will hostname be the hostname of my box??
- the answer is yes.