Process Monitoring
First, I'm sorry if this is a repeated question, I thought I remembered seeing something about it a while back, but can't find it again, or else I'm just imagining things...
We're trying to use the new process monitoring feature to watch for two instances of a specific process on an XP workstation here. We need to make sure that exactly two instances of it are running, and are most concerned about one of them dying off. In other words, if I can only set up an alert in one direction, I'd rather find out if only one is running than if an additional instance kicks off. I've gotten it set up so that we can monitor the processes, and the monitor is returning a value of "2", just as I'd expect, but I'm a bit stuck trying to figure out how to use thresholds to alert us if it dies.
In the process monitor, I see that I can set up threshold and rearm values for CPU, RAM, and Instance counts. When I try to set up a threshold, I try setting it to a value of "1". The issue is that it requres a rearm value to be entered, but also requires that it be smaller than the threshold value and will not accept a 0.
To me, it looks like it is set up more to watch for too many of a specific process and does not handle watching for too few as well. Is there any way to make this work, or are we stuck for now?
We're trying to use the new process monitoring feature to watch for two instances of a specific process on an XP workstation here. We need to make sure that exactly two instances of it are running, and are most concerned about one of them dying off. In other words, if I can only set up an alert in one direction, I'd rather find out if only one is running than if an additional instance kicks off. I've gotten it set up so that we can monitor the processes, and the monitor is returning a value of "2", just as I'd expect, but I'm a bit stuck trying to figure out how to use thresholds to alert us if it dies.
In the process monitor, I see that I can set up threshold and rearm values for CPU, RAM, and Instance counts. When I try to set up a threshold, I try setting it to a value of "1". The issue is that it requres a rearm value to be entered, but also requires that it be smaller than the threshold value and will not accept a 0.
To me, it looks like it is set up more to watch for too many of a specific process and does not handle watching for too few as well. Is there any way to make this work, or are we stuck for now?