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I need to add a sensor to monitor Windows Handles

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We have the need to monitor the HANDLES that are displayed under taskmgr. We have a couple of databases that want to periodically open 35000 handles, and needless to say, the systems take exception to this.

I was unable to see a sensor for this, and am not much of a programmer...could you lead me in the right direction about how to accomplish this ?

customize handles prtg sensor

Created on Aug 11, 2010 8:35:59 PM

Last change on Aug 12, 2010 9:19:34 AM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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Under version 8 process sensors will also include handles. In version 7 you can try using the following custom WQL query:

SELECT HandleCount FROM Win32_PerfRawData_PerfProc_Process WHERE Name ='executablename' OR Name LIKE 'executablename#%'

Created on Aug 12, 2010 1:21:36 PM by Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) ●3 ●3



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Not really sure what you mean by this.... I dont see a custom WQL query sensor listed as a base to start from ? additionally, while the failure we had was strictly one particular executable name, we did have a different box have a similar issue, ( the handles went wayyyyy up) but it was a different executable... so we actually need to monitor TOTAL handles on a given box, looking for some high number , say 25,000 before we see an alarm...

once we see that, we could start digging and from there isolate the process that is the issue...

Created on Aug 12, 2010 1:55:31 PM



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select HandleCount from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process where name='_Total'

should do the trick.

Created on Aug 17, 2010 12:08:06 PM by Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) ●3 ●3



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Can you please explain this more fully? We had our handle count again go up to 32000, taking the database machine effectively offline. I need to build this sensor and have the limit set at around 15,000 or so.

Can you walk me through this, including what fields are the ones I need to input ? Thanks

Created on Sep 28, 2010 2:32:04 PM



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Dear Rick,

as with PRTG 8 now being release, the easiest way would be to upgrade to PRTG 8 and use a new WMI Process Sensor, as this one is able to monitor for Handles in PRTG 8. You could then set a Threshold Trigger on the Handles-Channel of said sensor.

Best Regards.

Created on Sep 29, 2010 10:42:29 AM by Torsten Lindner [Paessler Support]




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