Configuring Windows Processes
This topic provides information about configuring processes.
The following video (4:53) demonstrates the configuration process for Windows process monitoring:
On the Add Monitoring Configuration window, set the following preferences:
Monitoring Solution | Monitor Profile | Monitor Type |
|---|---|---|
Microsoft Windows Servers | Services Processes Operating System | Windows Processes |
Provide the following details:
Process Configuration
Field | Description |
|---|---|
List of Processes | Click the Add button to configure the process manually. |
Process Specification | |
Configure Process Monitoring | |
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_]+$'. |
Process Name | Specify a name or a regular expression pattern that matches the names of processes that must be monitored. Enter only the process name without extension. Example: If the process name is Notepad, enter Notepad. Do not enter Notepad.exe. |
Use Regular Expression for Process Name | Select this check box if you want to monitor all the processes that contain the process name specified. |
Process Arguments | Specify the command line arguments for the processes that you want to monitor. Note:
Example: C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k NetworkService |
Use Regular Expression for Process Argument | Select this check box to enter process command line arguments using regular expression pattern. |
Minimum Count | Specify a value so that an alarm is raised if the process count drops under this value. |
Maximum Count | Specify a value so that an alarm is raised if the process count rises above this value. |
Acceptable Process Owner | Specify a name or regular expression pattern that matches the name of the acceptable process owner. |
Use Process Owners for Filtering | Select this check box if you want to filter processes based on the process owners. |
Process Settings | |
Generate alarm on Process stop | Select this check box to generate an alarm when the process stops. |
Generate alarm on Process start | Select this check box to generate an alarm when the process starts. |
Restart Command | Enter the command that would be used to restart a stopped process. |
Time to terminate runaway Process | Enter the time for which a process is retained and not terminated when the CPU usage for the process exceeds the defined maximum CPU threshold. After the specified time, the process is terminated. The time that you enter must match the following regular expression pattern - ^[0-9]+$. |
Automatic Process Monitoring | |
Disable Automatic Process Monitoring | Select this check box to disable the default monitoring of processes. Note: By default, all the processes for which you would configure CPU threshold and time duration are monitored. You can configure CPU threshold and time duration by using the CPU Threshold in % and Time Duration in secs fields. |
CPU Threshold in % | Specify the CPU threshold (in %) for automatic process monitoring. The value that you enter must match the following 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. |