MS KB281884 and Process Test

[toppy]

Hello,
After applying KB281884 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281884) my tests taht use test method "process" that counted if I have less than 1 process perl and sent a message started to fail.

When I checked it I saw that the name it sees now is perl_2543 (2543 is the PID) so now I don't have the abbility to count the process, because it's name is changed.

Is there a way to use wildcards in the process name?

[KS-Soft Europe]

So, you have set ProcessNameFormat to 2, right? Hm. "Process" test method will not work with such a process names.
As a woprkaround, you may use "Shell Script" test method, I think: http://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/mfra ... m#chkShell

For instance, you may use script below to check number of processes and fire alert when the number of processes is less than specified value:

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@echo off

if "%1"=="" (
   echo ScriptRes:Unknown:Process name is required
   goto end
)

if "%2"=="" (
   echo ScriptRes:Unknown:Process threshold is required
   goto end
)


FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('tasklist ^| find /c "%1"') DO SET proc_count=%%A 

IF %proc_count% LSS %2 (
   echo ScriptRes:Ok:%proc_count%
) ELSE (
   echo ScriptRes:Bad:%proc_count%
)

:end

Script requires two parameters:
1. Process name or part of the name
2. Numer to compare with

For instance, to check if you have less than 1 perl_ process, you should use parameters like these:

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perl_ 1

Regards,
Max

[toppy]

It works. thanks.