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How can I use a list of values from a WQL in PRTG?

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I am trying to create a custom WMI sensor which queries for any processes with a certain name using more than a certain amount of memory and returns their ProcessID.

It makes more sense in WQL...

Select IDProcess From Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process Where PageFileBytes > 629145600 AND Name LIKE "%w3wp#%"

When I add it as a WMI Custom sensor, I get the following error: Query returned more than one record (code: PE078)

When I add it as a WMI Custom String sensor, I get the following error: This sensor has not received any data since startup. Please check "WMI Delay" channel of core/probe health sensor. Consider distributing your WMI sensors across several probes!

The WMI Custom sensor works if there is only one process that meets the criteria but I need it to work with multiple processes meeting the criteria. Sort of like the WMI Users sensor where there is a list of users but in this case I need a list of ProcessID's.

How do I create the custom sensor to accept multiple values and present them as a list?

list wmi-custom-sensor wql

Created on Jun 24, 2013 9:11:41 AM



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I'm afraid WMI Custom sensors only accpept one return value. What you could do is write a EXEXML sensor with, for example, 5 fixed channels. Then use VVScript to extract the WMI table and dump the required values as channels.

Created on Jun 24, 2013 1:30:46 PM by  Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) 3 3




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