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Process Count Check
The Process Count Check monitor measures the number of identical processes that are running on a system. If there is more than one instance of a process running, the check returns an OK status. If the process is not running, the check returns a Critical status.
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If your monitor includes a space in the Process Name field, you may experience an error in monitor operation. The Process Count Check monitor uses regular expressions, which means that you must use the proper notation for a space. To match a space, use an escape with the space notation, i.e. \s. For example:
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the check returns an OK status. If the process is not running, the check returns a Critical status.
Configuring Process Count Check Monitors
To configure Process Count Check monitors, do the following:
- In the Process Count Check monitor template, complete the monitor information fields.
To learn how to configure monitor information fields, see Monitor Identification. - Complete the following fields:
- Process Name (Mandatory)
The exact name of the process that you want to monitor.
The name is the absolute name of the process, without its path, file extension, or any parameters.
For example, on UNIX systems, the process “" /usr/bin/vmstat -p ” " is checked as “" vmstat ” ", and on Windows systems, “" process.exe ” " should be entered as “" process ” ". - Process Occurrences
Enter the number of process occurrences for which you want to set Warning and Critical thresholds. For more information, see Configuring Warning and Critical Thresholds. - Response Time
Enter the Warning and Critical Response Time thresholds. For more information, see Configuring Warning and Critical Thresholds.
- Process Name (Mandatory)
- To save the data from the thresholds for graphing or reporting, click the Save for Graphing checkbox beside each of the metrics that you selected in step 3.
- Complete the following settings:
- Timing Settings (see Adding Monitor Timing Settings Information for more information).
- Alert Settings (see Monitor Alert Settings for more information)
- Monitoring Period (see Monitor Timing Settings for more information).
- Alert Profile (see Alert Profiles for more information)
- Action Profile (see Action Profiles for more information)
- Click Finish.
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