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Any way to include updated Processes into a monitor?

lchance

I have a group of servers where I'm monitoring every process on the server.

Is there any way to automate APM to pick up any future processes which become active?

Thanks,

Larry

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martin.susil

There is no support for it out of the box, but here is what I have seen the other customer using as workaround:

- They are using NPM UnDP to collect the OID customCurrentProcessList. The UnDP automatically puts the complete current process list into the correct NPM DB table.

- They have an application template that includes a single component monitor (SNMP process monitor) that monitors explorer.exe

- They wrote a Stored Procedure in SQL Server that runs every 30 seconds that compares the NPM table (that holds the latest customCurrentProcessList) with the APM component monitor table for the application. If there are any new processes in the NPM table, the stored procedure creates a new component monitor for that process.

- They use Orion Unmanage Utility to Unmanage/Remanage the application (after it was modified by stored proc) so APM would pick up the changes and start polling the newly added process.

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FormerMember

No, but we'll take that as a feature request.

martin.susil

There is no support for it out of the box, but here is what I have seen the other customer using as workaround:

- They are using NPM UnDP to collect the OID customCurrentProcessList. The UnDP automatically puts the complete current process list into the correct NPM DB table.

- They have an application template that includes a single component monitor (SNMP process monitor) that monitors explorer.exe

- They use Orion Unmanage Utility to Unmanage/Remanage the application (after it was modified by stored proc) so APM would pick up the changes and start polling the newly added process.

familyofcrowes

I'll second the request

Thanks all!!!!

aLTeReGo

I have a group of servers where I'm monitoring every process on the server.
Is there any way to automate APM to pick up any future processes which become active?

Can you explain what you're trying to accomplish by monitoring all processes on a server? I'm sure you have a good reason. I just want to better understand your use case. If implemented I'm sure you wouldn't want to be alerted if someone opened notepad.exe on the server and APM automatically started monitoring it, then they closed notepad.exe.

familyofcrowes

I too would like to see all services, not to alert on, but from a historical perspective. When a system is having an issue we can look at the state of the services/process at that time to help determine what was going on. I have this same request for my server guys. They want to go to the server page and see what services are running and what are stopped. Seems like alot of polling though for just an occasional look... but they want the world...

:-)

lchance

My need comes from inhouse developers who support a very diverse application which sits across mainframe and distributed systems. It is their desire to see all these processes.

I just work here...

aLTeReGo

Are you primarily concerned with the up/down status of these processes/services or the performance metrics (CPU/Memory) to gauge impact on the server?

lchance

Those inhouse developers here at my company are concerned with both.

By the way, they don't want alerts on these, they just reference these APM components in their current state from our Orion web access.

And they really would like access through the Orion web to be able to Stop-Pause-Start any service on any of their servers.

familyofcrowes

My server/applications teams would like to see what services are running. This would include events that would state if a service was turned active or shutdown. Alerts are not important. So far as CPU/Memory usage by each service, that would be nice but it's not driving the request.

Thanks!!