Trying to monitor that a process has more than 3 instances started.

km3001

I am new to APM.

I would like to monitor when an application spawns more instances of a particular process than 3. I may then create an alert action to kill the additional processes.

Windows 2003 server

APM 4.0.1

I know the name of the process but it is not running as I am trying to build this component so I cannot scan for it.

Any help is appreciated.

Kevin

qle

I'm pretty sure you can do this using the script monitor. I know how to do this using PowerShell but not VBScript and since I haven't upgraded to APM 4 yet, I can't test this out. You might be best served searching for an existing script that provides a count of a specified process. Obviously, you'd then be able to create an alert based on the script/component output.