Windows Processes

This topic provides information about configuring processes by using Central Monitoring Administration.

On the Add Monitor Types dialog, with the Monitoring Profile set to Services or Processes or Operating System, and the Monitor Type set to Windows Processes, provide the following details:

Field	Description
Host Name	When the process that you want to monitor is running on a local computer (where PATROL Agent is running), do not change the default value, localhost. When the process that you want to monitor is running on a remote computer, specify the name of the host that you want to configure for monitoring processes.
Automatic Process Monitoring
CPU Threshold in %	Specify the CPU threshold (in %) for automatic process monitoring. The input that you specify must match the regular expression pattern, '^[0-9]+$'. By default, this value is set to 90.
Time Duration in secs	Specify the time limit (in seconds) to start the automatic process monitoring. The input that you specify must match the regular expression pattern, '^[0-9]+$'. By default, this value is set to 300.
Process Specification
Process Label	Specify a label to identify a group of processes. The input that you specify must match the regular expression pattern, '^[0-9a-zA-Z_]+$'.
Process Name	Specify a name or a regular expression pattern that matches the names of processes that must be monitored.
Process Arguments	Specify the command line arguments for the processes that you want to monitor.
Select Process using Regular Expression	Select this check box if you want to monitor all the processes that contain the process name specified.
Minimum Count	Specify a value so that the an alarm is raised if the process count drops under this value.
Maximum Count	Specify a value so that the an alarm is raised if the process count rises above this value.
Acceptable Process Owner	Specify a name or regular expression pattern that matches the name of the acceptable process owner.
Use process owners for filtering	Select this check box if you want to filter processes based on the process owners.
Process Settings
Generate alarm on Process stop	Select this check box if an alarm must be generated when the process stops.
Generate alarm on Process start	Select this check box if an alarm must be generated when the process starts.
Restart Command	Specify the command that must be run to re-start the process when it stops.
Time to terminate runaway Process	Specify the time (in minutes) to terminate the process when the CPU percentage for the process exceeds the defined CPU threshold. The input that you specify must match the regular expression pattern, '^[0-9]+$'.
Add to List	Click this option for confirming the configuration information that you provided and adding the process label to the list of processes. Select the processes that you want to finally configure and click this option.
Modify Selection	Select one of the items that you added to the list in the preceding step, and click this option to modify details.
Remove from List	Select the items added earlier and click this option to delete that item from the list of configured objects and the clear the details provided in the earlier fields.
Add	Click this option to add this monitoring configuration. This information is displayed on the Monitor Configuration page. After you click this option, you can continue to add more objects for monitoring.
Reset	Click this option to clear off your configuration details and revert to default settings.
Close	Click this option to exit without saving any changes.

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