WMI and Process name to include CPU util

i'm trying to find the proverbial 'needle in a haystack' (using WMI properties) and figure out how to query both the Process Name instance along with it's CPU Utilization.

has anyone done this already or seen where WMI property puts these two together, for example like when you use Task Manager and see the PID and CPU UTIL.

this would be great to monitor every Process on a server and get the related CPU utilization for when one or more combined processes are generating 100% CPU hits.

thanks.

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qle

So you're saying that you would add all of the running processes on a server to an application monitor? Also, doesn't the Processes and Services resource already list the name of the process and each of their corresponding CPU utilization?

lchance

thanks for the reply...

i'd like to have a 'snapshot' of processes and their cpu util - for instance, i have a server where two processes together make it show up as 100% cpu.

by the way, i'm missing something here...where's the resource Processes and Services you've mentioned? is it in APM WMI?

thanks.

qle

If you view the APM Application Details of an application monitor, you should see it in the upper-right, which is the default I believe.

Processes and Services.png

lchance

that's not what i was thinking about. that is static.

i'm just beginning to use WMI and it appears very powerful, so i don't understand everything about it, but i was thinking WMI might be more dynamic in its use.

what i'm thinking about is using a WMI query which can produce this dynamic list of current processes and their current CPU util.

and i have not found the way to combined these two to get the WMI value which shows the process's cpu usage in percentages and i'm not sure where to begin:

select * from Win32_PerfRawData_PerfProc_Process

select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor

and this may not even be possible using APM WMI, i'm mostly curious if it has this ability. i'm after an Orion View which shows a server's current processes (all processes) and each process's CPU util.

thanks for your reply