Question on Process Monitoring

MartsG · Post by **MartsG** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:46 am

How, technically, does Hostmonitor check whether a process is working?

We have a server that we check a service and a process on. This works fine until a different tool (Quest) is introduced. The Quest tool monitors performance of several things within SQL on this server.

Once Quest is started the service test still responds but the process one times out with result 'Unknown'

I'm asuming that both apps are running a similar test but how does Hostmonitor perform its check?

AntonyP · Post by **AntonyP** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:06 am

I use WMI test to check active processes and services.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:33 am

"Process" test method does not check HOW process works. It checks how many instances of the process is started.
If you need to monitor some specific parameters of the process (e.g. memory usage, threads count, number of allocated handles), use WMI or Performance Counter test method.
If you want to check how process responds to Windows messages, use appstatus.exe utility, its located in Utils subfolder.

Regards
Alex