Process Monitoring Through APM

Greetings, I'm currently attempting to monitor various processes (.exe) that may run on a server at a various times within a given day. The end goal is to provide a detailed overview of the server load (CPU, Memory, Disk Utilization, etc.) caused by these various processes and its particular peak windows. Unfortunately, I having a difficult time on how I would approach this through the APM.

On the initial attempt, I created a process monitor for each process I wanted to monitor. However, this seems to only provides information on whether or not the process was running during each poll; not exactly what I had in mind.

With the end goal noted above, is this possible through the APM? Am I approaching this completely wrong?

Any information on this would be great.

Thanks!

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aLTeReGo

Is this a server application you're trying to monitor? From you description it sounds like you're trying to monitor a collection of processes that could be running on the host, but may or may not actually be running at all. At least not all the time. Is that correct?

mpio

Yes. This particular application consist of a collection of processes (.exe) and a set of Windows services. When a request is submitted to the Application server, the appropriate Windows service responds and starts up the needed process (.exe); In addition, this process may also trigger another process to start-up as well in order to complete the request.

The intent behind monitoring these "collection of processes" is not necessary to determine whether the application is functional or not but to provide insights to performance, load, and capacity of the server host; along with identifying "high cost" processes and peak windows.

aLTeReGo

Monitoring processes without monitoring state (up/down) is not something that can be done natively within the product today. I know some customers have written scripts monitors in SAM to do this. I've logged this as a feature request which we're tracking internally as FB116284.

mpio

Could you provide some information at a high level of what these scripts would do and we could look into this route?

Thanks again for all your help surrounding this.

gunship

I'm looking for the same feature (Monitoring a process that will spawn multible times depending on demand) we are currently running Orion Core 2012.1.1, SAM 5.2.0, NPM 10.3.1, IVIM 1.4.0

In what version will we see this feature and if I already have it where would I find it?

Cheers