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Monitoring multiple instances of a process

I am configuring a monitor to watch a process that has multiple instances running. My question is how can I monitor the ram utilization of a single instance of that process and alert on it? From what I have configured so far the ram utilization monitor is cumulative for all the instances running for the process. The process id's do change when the instances closes and a new one spawns so selecting each instances individually will not work, so I am a little stuck. How can I separate that out to alarm on a single instance of the process?

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aLTeReGo

In most cases there is something unique about each instance of a process. That being either the directory/location of the executable, or the command line arguments (switches) that are passed when the process is executed. These can be added to the component monitor's Command Line Filter as shown below. For this to work the way you are expecting, you will need to configure a Process Monitor component for each unique process you wish to monitor.

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basil_free

So if I setup one for each process instance what if one of the instances closes and a new spawns, will this pick it up a new spawned instances of the process?

aLTeReGo

Yes, provided the process is spawned from the same location or uses the same command line arguments as the component is configured to monitor.

basil_free

I appreciate your help by the way. The issue I am running into now using the -d filter is I go from the 11 counts of the instance to only showing one. Also should have mentioned this earlier none of the instances have a command line argument.

basil_free

I've got multiple servers with this same process and multiple instances, so I don't want to have to do this for each server, is there some sort of switch in the template config that I can use since there are no command line arguments for any of these instances?

jspanitz

aLTeReGo trying to get this to work and not having much success. We currently have some user context processes that all use the same executable with different command lines. They are launched interactively from a desktop shortcut.

The shortcut uses this as the command "G:\Fidelio\IFC8\Ifc8.exe G:\Fidelio\IFC8\WCB\POS_\POS_M87_ifc8config.xml".

When I try to use Ifc8.exe as the process name it works great. As soon as I add the G:\Fidelio\IFC8\WCB\POS_\POS_M87_ifc8config.xml as the Command Line Filter it fails with Unexpected Error Invalid Query.

Here are the entries in the app monitor template.