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Windows Powershell Monitor - Multiple Statistics?

Is there anyway to specify multiple unique statistics with this component? The documentation seems to allude to it being possible, as it states: "A maximum of 10 output pairs can be returned. If you exceed the maximum allowed, remove the excess output pairs or they will simply be ignored.". But maybe I'm misinterpreting that. The documentation for the normal Windows Script Monitor clearly states the expected output format for multiple statistics. But I want to use a powershell script, not a vbscript.

Basically my problem is I need to monitor a specific process on a server that will be launched multiple times by different people. I need unique statistics for each version of the launched process, not a cumulative view of the processes (Otherwise the builtin Windows Process Monitor would work fine). This is because I want to know the virtual memory utilization of each unique process launched. I feel like doing something like this would be easy with SolarWinds and I'm overlooking something simple here?

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chadsikorra

I gave up on the Windows Powershell Monitor. It does not seem to support multiple statistics. If someone finds a working way for it to parse it please let me know. I ultimately used the Windows Script Monitor. However, I ran into some sort of issue with the Windows Script Monitor running against servers using the Windows Agent. In that case it refused to read certain win32_process values from WMI. Instead of getting the value it would just show "NaN". To get around this I configured the application template to prefer agentless monitoring and configured the credentials. After that the script correctly pulled the virtual memory values correctly. I ended up using vbscript for this. In the end it looks like this:

Set objWMI = GetObject("winmgmts:\\${Node.DNS}\root\cimv2")Set colObjects = objWMI.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Process Where Name LIKE '%ArcMap.exe%'")If colObjects.Count < 1 Then    WScript.Echo "Statistic: 1"    WScript.Echo "Message: There are no ArcMap processes running"    WScript.Quit(0)End Ifi = 0For Each Item in colObjects    i = i + 1    vmmMb = Round((Item.VirtualSize / 1024) / 1024, 2)    colProperties = Item.GetOwner(strNameOfUser)        WScript.Echo "Statistic.Arcmap" & i & ": " & vmmMb    WScript.Echo "Message.Arcmap" & i & ": ArcMap Virtual Memory Usage for " & strNameOfUser & " with PID " & Item.ProcessIdNextWScript.Quit(0)

Just substitute ArcMap for whatever process you're actually looking for. Just happened to be what I'm interested in Only problem now I think is if there are over 10 instances of the process running I wont get it all back (if I'm reading the docs correctly).

apantazi

I have found the powershell to be very easy for monitoring. whatever I have needed to monitor just do as follows:

Write-Host 'Statistic.Item: ' $Variable

Write-Host 'Message.Item: ' 'This is the message'

So, the one thing is solarwinds is looking for static names for the '*.item'. you can have up to 10 items. if you wanted to track items with the same process with multiple instances, you would probably list the PIDs with the same image name and from there loop the Write-Host.....

###Not true code

$increment=0

Foreach($PID in (Get-PID from ImageName.exe)){

Write-Host 'Statistic.Item' $increment ': ' $PID

Write-Host 'Message.Item' $increment ': ' 'This is the message, potentially including the variable'

$increment+=1

}

Hope this helps.