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Monitor individual processes with different users

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Hi,

We monitor a WMI process called: tman.odbc but due to the nature of the system it launches multiple copies of this process with different user names. We need to be able to monitor these individually since a failure of one could indicate a problem but at the moment all instances have to fail before we get an alert.

Regards, Darren.

process prtg user wmi

Created on Mar 15, 2011 1:40:56 PM



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You would need to use a Custom WMI or Custom Script sensor. You can find relevant queries under:

Which WQL queries are used by PRTG's WMI sensors?

Created on Mar 22, 2011 3:31:23 PM by  Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) 3 3



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I have experimented a bit with this and although I can run a query to list the occurances of a particular process: SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Description='tman.odbc.exe' in the WMI tester I can't see how to then specify which individual user since there will be multiple instances of this process running, each started by a different user.

Created on Mar 22, 2011 5:41:47 PM

Last change on Mar 24, 2011 1:58:13 PM by  Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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I have narrowed it down to individual users by adding the ExecutablePath:

SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Description='tman.odbc.exe' AND ExecutablePath LIKE "%CCUK%"

But this still returns 10 rows so not suitable for a sensor. I just need to know if like in SQL we can get a count of the number of instances of a process spawned by a single user. In our system I just need to know whether there are any running processes to know it is up. None would mean it is down.

Created on Apr 8, 2011 2:54:15 PM

Last change on Apr 8, 2011 3:30:01 PM by  Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]



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Unfortunately WQL doesn't support a count(*) construct. So you'll have to write a custom exe/script sensor for your needs, I'm afraid.

Created on Apr 11, 2011 10:57:55 AM by  Volker Uffelmann [Paessler Support]




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