Very Simple Trigger

[richard]

Hello,

Just wondering if anyone can help? Looking for a trigger to check if a certain process if running on any of our Windows 2003 servers.

Many thanks in advance,

Richard

[richard]

Any update would be much appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Richard

[dsipe]

May be U can use the gnu tools for win32 to issue some kind of unix command like 'ps -ef|grep -i process' inside a .BAT or .CMD [ http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ ]

then create a UserParameter inside zabbix_agentd.conf and define a specific item.

From there, U can define a trigger using the 'str' function to find your process

[sbadger]

Is it a service that is running??

[richard]

sbadger,

No the trigger is needed to check if a program called "SourceBooster.exe" is running on the server or not.

Kind Regards,

Richard

[sbadger]

Then Dsipe has the best method.
I don't kow of anyway to poll running programs otherwise.

Sorry

[dantheman]

I put together this VBS script that will tell you how many of a particular process are running. We have a program that needs to be running on a computer and we use it for that.

I have an item in zabbix

system.run[cscript c:\howmany.vbs processname.exe //nologo]

Doing it as a system command eliminates the need to have a userparameter . or of having to make copies of the script for each process on that server that needs to be monitored. the only limitation I've come across is that zabbix only stores a certain length of the key, so if your path to the vbs script is too long, then it won't all be saved in zabbix and the script won't be run by zabbix. That's why you see I have the script right on the C drive to keep the path as short as possible.

Then I created a trigger that checks if this item is = to 1. If it is.. things are good to go, but if not.. then we have a problem.

howmany.vbs

DIM strProcessName

If Wscript.Arguments.Count > 0 Then
strProcessName = wscript.arguments(0)
wscript.echo howmany
else
wscript.echo "ERROR"
end if

Function HowMany()
  Dim Proc1,Proc2,Proc3
  Set Proc1 = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
  Set Proc2 = Proc1.ExecQuery("select * from win32_process" )
  HowMany=0
  For Each Proc3 in Proc2
	If LCase(Proc3.Caption) = strProcessName Then
	  HowMany=HowMany + 1
	End If
  Next
End Function

[richard]

Many thanks for your responce. Would it be possible for you to paste the trigger you used?

Kind Regards,

Richard

[[email protected]]

proc.num[SourceBooster.exe]
does the trick.
no need for vbs scripts.

[dantheman]

Hey thanks for the info on proc.num that will help clean up the monitoring.

[dratliff]

trigger

I would really like to see how to make a trigger. I have cut and paste a simple example that is part of the windows_t, but I cannot figure out how to monitor a process.

Any help would be appreciated. Or if there is some tutorial documentation, that would be greatly appreciated.


Thank you in advance.