Windows processes monitoring

[scout]

Hello,

I would like to monitor Windows systems. Looking solution to monitor each Windows process (how much each process take CPU usage, RAM).

I.e. looking solution how to implement task manager process tab status into Zabbix like that:

process name/ user/ CPU usage/ Memory usage

Thank you for comments.

[BrentN]

I'm using a powershell script for this, but I'm dumping it all into a single text item as a table. Not sure if that is what you want, but here's how I'm doing it.

PowerShell script:

$table = `
	@{Expression={$_.Name};Label="Executable";width=20}, `
	@{Expression={$_.Description};Label="Process Description";width=25}, `
	@{Expression={$_.ID};Label="PID";width=7;align="left"}, `
	@{Expression={"{0:N1}" -f ($_.CPU)};Label="CPU Load";width=10;align="left"}, `
	@{Expression={"{0:N0}" -f ($_.NPM / 1024)};Label="Nonpaged (MB)";width=15;align="left"}, `
	@{Expression={"{0:N0}" -f ($_.PM / 1024)};Label="Paged (MB)";width=15;align="left"}, `
	@{Expression={"{0:N0}" -f ($_.WS / 1024)};Label="Working (MB)";width=15;align="left"}, `
	@{Expression={"{0:N0}" -f ($_.VM / 1024)};Label="Virtual (MB)";width=15;align="left"}

Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU -Descending | ft $table

Script outputs a table sorted by CPU load. You'd need to add additional expressions to get things like the session ID or user. You'd also need to set your powershell signing to executelocal or all.

I created a user parameter in my zabbix_agentd.conf as follows:

UserParameter=ListAllProcesses,mode con cols=140 && powershell -nologo -file C:\Zabbix\Scripts\ListAllProcesses.ps1

The reason for the mode command is because the output is wider than the deafult windows command line width of 80 columns.

Finally, in Zabbix I have an item on my Windows template as follows (note that I'm using active checks):

Name: Processes on Server (or whatever you want)
Type: Zabbix agent (active)
Key: ListAllProcesses
Type: Text
Update interval: 480 secs

If the item ends up in an not supported state just check your settings/scripts and enable it again. For some reason I had to re-enable it twice before it started to work for me.

The only issue I have with this method is that even though the text returned to Zabbix is formatted as a table, the latest data table in Zabbix doesn't use a fixed width font so the table is all messy. I'll probably end up editing the style for that table to fix it but I wish Zabbix had another text option for "plain text".

[mmarkwitzz]

If anybody is interested, I have created a template based on this ideea that can create dynamic graphs of processes memory, cpu, disk read/writes per sec.

You cand find it in: http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26987

[sccuser]

Allow me dig this thread with a silly question.
I did exactly as the first post, then how can I view the result in Zabbix?

Run the script from Agent machine (ServerActive already registered in the zabbix_agentd.win.conf also)


"ListAllProcesses" item


The latest data of that host does not show the thing what I'm expecting.


The "ListAllProcesses" is working fine I think


Thanks!

[BrentN]

Try checking the item from the host you are monitoring. This might give you some additional info on why you aren't seeing it show up in Zabbix. Also make sure you have all of the active agent settings configured correctly in your conf file. I can post what I use if you aren't sure.

To check the item from system you are monitoring:

Log into the system and open a command prompt (run as admin if needed). CD to the location of your Zabbix executables (ex: c:\zabbix\bin). Run the following command:

Zabbix_agentd.exe -c [path to your Zabbix conf file] -t [name of item to check]

Example:

Zabbbix_agentd.exe -c c:\zabbix\conf\zabbixa_agentd.conf -t ListAllProccesses

This should return the output from the script just as you would expect to see it in Zabbix. See what this does and let me know.

[sccuser]

Hi BrentN,

Yes it worked for now.
But I have a problem with text display format as your warning, how can I workaround with below?



Thanks!

[steveboyson]

Add html tags to the script and configure the screen item in zabbix as "html".

see https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showpos...10&postcount=2
(reason for not opening too many threads for the same topic)

[sccuser]

I'm not expert in scripting then please show me how can I approach the goal.
Your image looks very nice for me.

[steveboyson]

Well, I'm not the powershell guy either ;-)

I prefer scripting in Perl.
You would need to modify the powershell script
Last line could read

Get-Process | Sort-Object CPU -Descending | ConvertTo-Html | ft $table

I don't know if it fits your needs.

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../ff730936.aspx ore http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../hh849944.aspx for more options.

For more advanced options you need to fiddle around with the table elements.
The colored bar graph in my table is generated via

<td style="vertical-align:top;" class=""><div style="background-color:Gold;width:70px;height:5px;border:1px solid #000;box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #888888;"></div>279.39 GB</td>

statements.

[sccuser]

Awesome it's working.

But one problem, too many of info are displayed, it make me quite hard to view the overall.
Last 2 questions steveboyson: any suggestions
- to remove/hide specific columns in the script?
- to show only 10 first rows

Much appreciated!

[steveboyson]

Hmmm, yeah, that looks quite weird ;-)
But I'm really sorry, I ideally have no clue about powershell.

Maybe the originator of the script may help?

[sccuser]

It's OK steveboyson, anyway thanks so much for the help.