monitor memory usage of a process on linux box

Hi,
the way to go here would be an SSH Script (Advanced) sensor which is executing a script which parses the memory usage from the command output. The command executed might look something like the following:

ps auxfww |grep 3339 | awk -F" " '{ print $4 }'

(Note: Some adjustments might be necessary. :))
3339 used above would be the PID which I used for greping. The output in order for PRTG pick the same up should be in the following format:

exitcode:value:message

In your case, as you need the script for documentation purposes, you might just use 0 as exit code every time. If you are using the Advanced sensor mentioned above the output would be in XML as outlined in the documentation.
Best regards

Hi

Thank you for the reply.

When I SSH to test the command I run this.

root@devbox1:~# ps auxfww |grep 18256 | awk -F" " '{ print $5 }' 10404 2194512 root@devbox1:~#

and it seems to give two values. I know the second value is VSZ column but what is the first as from what I understand the above command is only supposed to show the 5th column?

Thanks

Hi,
could you try to grep for the process name and then post the full output without piping the same to awk?