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Is there any way to monitor a PID or else detect if the process name has another PID or changes PIDs?

lchance

I am monitoring a process 'MYPROCESS32' and suspect a second instance is being started.

Is there any way to detect and monitor this second instance (new PID #)? Thanks.

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bobross

We done something like this before to check for duplicate processes:

@procs = ps -ef | grep process | egrep "perl|grep";

print "Statistic:$proc";

aLTeReGo

Is there any way to detect and monitor this second instance (new PID #)? Thanks.

All instances of a processes that match the process name as defined in the component monitor are monitored by default. If for example you create a process monitor for notepad.exe and you have three instances of notepad running on the server, all three will be monitored in SAM with no additional configuration. You can then define a trigger condition in the Advanced Alert Manager based on Process Instance Count as needed.

lchance

I have another twist to my questions.

Can I detect and alert on the CPU time used on a Process Name or its PID?

Our developers are needing this type of information.

Thanks again!

aLTeReGo

SAM will alert you when any instance of a particular process exceeds a defined threshold or falls within a defined trigger action. So in my example above, if one of the three instances of notepad.exe spiked to 90% an alert would be generated based on the predefined threshold settings.