Hello-
I need to create an alert in Advanced Alert Manager for Page File usage on Windows Server 2003 and 2008. Anyone know what logic and values I should use?
Thanks!
You can monitor the virtual memory of system in NPM - it's considered a volume. Navigate to the node details page for the device in question, click 'List Resources' and select 'virtual memory'. At that point you can alert against it like any other volume. I'd use these in your trigger condition:
Do you have Server & Application Monitor (SAM) or just Network Performance Monitor (NPM)? If you have the former, you can use a WMI query against Win32_PageFileUsage. If not, you should still be able to get it via SNMP. The article here goes through the OIDs involved: Windows memory usage monitoring
We have the NPM. What I’m really looking for is how to setup the alert in Advanced Alert Manager- what conditions and what variables should be used to alert when the Page File usage hits specific thresholds.
Thank you,
Jerry Rose
Enterprise Applications
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Hi there, we are using NPM that also has the SAM module built in, and although the article you linked to regarding Windows memory usage monitoring was an interesting read, the majority of systems we use that I am trying to monitor page file usage on are linux - does this mean such monitoring would need to be done via an external script? Also, the usage stats you have mentioned simply point to how much space has been used - I would be far more interested in monitoring page in/out frequency, as this will tell you if you are swapping alot and running low on memory more so than just how big your swap space usage is...
Any reply would be helpful thanks,
Steve Duff
How about the email message variable ${VolumeUsage} for volume usage . Is that will be the usage of Page File Memory?
