Monitoring Processes on Windows/Unix Servers & Desktops

Associating process monitors

A process monitor can be associated to a device in one of the following ways.

From performance monitor settings page

1. Go to Settings → Monitoring → Processes and click on the "Add" button at the top right corner. You can also associate existing monitors to devices by selecting the "Associate" button.
2. Now, select the device name, and the corresponding credential and protocol.
3. A list of available processes will be displayed. You can select the required processes and click on the "Save" or "Save and associate" option.

From device snapshot page

1. Navigate to Inventory → Devices and then click on a device to open its snapshot page.
2. Ensure that you have associated the SNMP/WMI/CLI Credentials to the device.
3. Click Monitors → Process Monitors.
4. Click Add Monitor, select the required Process Monitors and click Add at the bottom of the page to get these monitors associated to the device.

From device template page

1. Go to "Settings → Configuration → Device Template"
2. Click on a template and click the "Add" button found at the top of the "Associated Monitors" button.
3. You can now select the processes from the displayed list, and click on "Ok" button.

Configuring thresholds

You can set resource thresholds for the Process Monitor. Once a resource (CPU/memory) utilization by a process exceeds the configured threshold, an alert is triggered.

1. Under the device snapshot page, head to the monitors tab. Head to the process monitors section, and click on the Edit icon against the process name. (You can also configure thresholds from the performance monitor settings or device template pages.)
2. Configure the threshold values for CPU and Memory resources.
3. Configure the number of times you would like to allow threshold violation before being notified. For instance, if you configure the value as 3, OpManager will notify you if the resource threshold is violated 3 consecutive times.
4. Configure the number of the process instances, exceeding which you would like to be notified. For instance, if you would like to be notified if the number of Apache.exe instances on the monitored device exceeds 3, configure the value here as 3 and save the changes.

Alerts are triggered based on the above settings.

You can also view active processes on a device and process diagnostics against a system resource. We currently support active processes for SNMP/WMI/CLI protocols.