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External process monitor

BTSpaul over 15 years ago

Sorry if this question had been already asked, but I didn't find any posts by scanning this forum:

Is there any way to set up an external process monitor which would run a script or an executable, that would return an integer value and collect statistics on it? I want the same thing like ipMonitor has for bandwidth/cpu/memory with graphs, etc, but for an external process. Is it possible?

Thank you!

0 aynov over 15 years ago

I have a c# executable I made which the monitor launches. It does a test for me, and has a return code value. I then look at that to know what happens. For example, a return of 0 is success, 5 failure, etc.

It works well for me.

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0 BTSpaul over 15 years ago in reply to aynov

aynov,

You are describing the basic existing functionality of the external process monitor which checks only for success/failure. However, as I have mentioned in my original post, I need to also collect statistics on the returned integers and graph them in the reports!

Scenario:
an external process returns positive integers from 0 to whatever is the integer limit, for instance from 0 to 1024. I want this external process monitor to trigger an alert when the returned value exceeds a certain value (e.g. 256). There's no problems with that for now... But I need to be able to see the report with a graph and a table of values to see the process' historic output, i.e. I need this monitor to collect statistics as bandwidth/drive space and some other monitors do.
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0 aynov over 15 years ago in reply to BTSpaul

Why not have the return code be the value you want.

For example, if you wanted the memory usage of a process, you run your EXE, and have the return code be the memory usage of the process.

Would that work?
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0 Fodome over 15 years ago

Hi PTSpaul,

The ability to report on the values returned by an executable to the External Process Monitor is currently a feature request which may find its way in a future version of ipMonitor. At this time, reporting on these values is not possible.

Sincerely,

Fodome
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0 BTSpaul over 15 years ago in reply to Fodome

Thanks, Fodome!

I also noticed that Directory monitor also has this limitation... I'd like to be able to report the values for size/filecount (depending on what is the setting of the monitor is).
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0 Fodome over 15 years ago in reply to BTSpaul

BTSPaul,
-Reporting on External Process values is tentatively scheduled for next release (9.1)
-Reporting on Directory Size values is tentatively scheduled for next version (10)
Please keep in mind that this can change at any time and is in no way a garantee that these features will exist in future releases/versions.
Sincerely,
Chris Foley (a.k.a Fodome)
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