Is there a way in APM of showing an application as GREEN when it's not running and RED when it is?
I think that is an interesting use case that isn't a good fit for the process monitors we have today. I am going to capture this as an enhancement request for APM.
In the meantime you can use our script monitor to satisfy this specific use case. Here is a link to our scripting documentation.
You can also find a script (not APM specific) that does something similar here. You can modify the script to satisfy this use case.
HTHSham
Well, you could go to the web site folder and manually swap the down status icons graphics with the up status icon graphics to reverse them, but it's not something that we'd support. Also, anytime you update the product or reinstall the web site, you would lose all your change.
If I may ask, why is it that you want to do this?
Are you trying to identify rogue processes (I am assuming when you say application you mean actual win32 process). i.e. there are processes that should not be running (good state) but if they are running then there is a problem?
Yes, I've got a windows process that runs first thing in the morning to start up one of our systems. Every now and then, it doesn't close properly, and causes the system to hang. So I've setup monitoring of the process, and alert if the process runs for more than 5 mins. The problem I've got is that the application shows as down for 99.99% of the day, when actually it's actually in its correct state!
Hope that makes sense.
Phil
I have come across a need for this as well. For instance, ISInteg and ESEUtil in Exchange. When we kick off those tools, we want to see things as RED until they complete. Once they stop running, we receive alerts just fine, but it's annoying that our Exchange services show as degraded even though this is the running state.
Perhaps it would be simplest to have an "invert" checkbox for a given component monitor.
I also was trying to do this to monitor when userdump.exe showed up, this way i can catch most application errors.
I called tech support and I was told the product does not do this very well.
