Disable Up/Down status.

I have created a monitor for serveral applications on a Terminal Server. The processes that I am monitoring are not services and only run when a user is using the application. Monitoring them is straightforward and is working great but however if the last user closes the application and the services stops then the application is shown as unknown because the process no longer exists until another user opens the application.

I'd like to change this default behavior to not show the status as unknown/down when certian processes are no longer running. Is there a way to change this or perhaps another alternative?

Find more posts tagged with

unknown_applications

apm

down

Accepted answers

All comments

qle

If you don't mind me asking, why are you monitoring the applications if you're not concerned with their up/down status?

FormerMember

For this particular server we were just wanting to collect information about the processes in question such as CPU/Memory usage while the process is running to help troubleshoot any performance problems.

sfdurham

I am looking to do the same thing with our Citrix terminal servers. We have processes which can run wild, and we are looking to gather statistical data. We are also monitoring for when a process will consume over 300 megs of RAM. Monitoring this has worked out well, but our Application Monitor dashboard can get messy when the processes are not running.

I sent in an enhancement request to Solar Winds asking for the option to turn Up/Down monitoring on or off. This would also be a handy option for monitoring mobile nodes that are not on all the time. We have numerous devices we'd like to monitor as well. Collecting data from these devices is extremely valuable when engineering solutions. But again, those unwanted or known red indicators can mess up a dashboard.