Producing the 10 processors but getting a Get Output Failed:Output: ============================================ but it produces the output need it will not monitor due to the failed state

mcmillrl

I am running a power shell script to produce the top 10 processes on a node but it will not monitor due to the Get Output Failed. It is producing the output needed. Hoe can one use this script

Get-Process | Sort-Object -Property 'CPU' -Descending | Select-Object -First 10

and correctly format it to produce a correctly formatted out put from what follows???

 Get Output Failed:

Output: ==============================================

Handles NPM(K) PM(K) WS(K) CPU(s) Id SI ProcessName
------- ------ ----- ----- ------ -- -- -----------
1205 49 440148 413184 470,831.67 5208 0 java
500 33 62084 30600 87,914.69 8088 0 BESClient
671 39 420056 213064 65,804.56 3408 0 ccSvcHst
732 17 7136 17408 62,287.94 908 0 svchost
3735 295 122224 153988 14,327.77 3400 0 ccSvcHst
2172 0 192 152 13,284.42 4 0 System
464 24 134844 130800 8,082.42 7408 0 xagt
600 27 17080 34604 3,640.59 4620 0 WmiPrvSE
354 17 21816 24252 3,069.27 9008 0 svchost
230 12 3676 10216 2,705.22 2512 0 svchost

How shall one statistic I tried

"Statistic :<Handle>",

"Statistic :<NPM(K>",

"Statistic :<PM(K)>",

"Statistic :<WS(K)>",

"Statistic :<CPU(s)>",

"Statistic :<Id>",

"Statistic :<SI>",

"Statistic :<ProcessName>"

but it came back as NaN

An add on question is can one go back in time and produce the process information as listed on a CPU from for example 11/2/2024?

yaquaholic

Hi Mcmillrl,

The PowerShell monitor is expecting either just a Statistic with a value (with optional Message with a string),with up to 10 named Statistics. Your script is trying to pass strings to the Statistic variables, so they are failing. Also each statistic name must be unique, and using the process name won't guarantee this, so I've used the unique PID. You'll also notice that you can only pull one metric against the variable name, so you'll have to create another script to pull the other process metrics (WS, CPU, etc).

Here's an example that would extract the NPM metric for each !op 10 CPU process:

$topten = Get-Process | Sort-Object -Property 'CPU' -Descending | Select-Object -First 10

ForEach ($result in $topten)
   {
     Write-Host "Statistic.$($result.Id): $($result.NPM)" 
     Write-Host "Message.$($result.ID): PID $($result.ID) is $($result.ProcessName)"
   }

# In the SAM monitor uncomment this line
#exit 0

And no, you won't be able to poll for historical data.