Then just choose the performance counter you wish to monitor. such as Consecutive Samples Over Threshold Monitor. You could always just use a Windows Performance Counter Monitor wizard in the console…. It can become messy over time, but simplicity comes at a cost.Īnother challenge, is what if you wish to monitor some counter that isn’t CPU or Memory? Such as Handle Count? You are on your own. However, if the group membership changes and servers are removed from the group, we do not “undiscover” the process class members that are removed. The biggest being that since it uses a group, and enables discovery of the “process class” for members of the group. There are a couple downsides to our process monitoring template. It has a nice wizard based UI, that lets you pick each process by name, and alert when a process is not running when expected to be, or running when not expected, including duration of the running process, min and max expected process counts, and CPU and Memory monitors for each process.

In this article, I will run through some examples of how to be successful, and what to avoid.įirst, SCOM provides a “Process Monitoring” template in the console, that works pretty well. Monitoring a Process in SCOM can be pretty straightforward, or it can be pretty tricky depending on the application.

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