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Monitor redundent processes running on the Windows Server

Author
20 Jan 2009 11:43 PM
ash
Hi Everyone,

I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent processes and
send me an email alert when that happens.
Your help would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Ash.

Author
20 Jan 2009 11:58 PM
Pegasus (MVP)
"ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:029843B3-7BF8-4628-8A86-FF3F5F33E014@microsoft.com...
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent processes
> and
> send me an email alert when that happens.
> Your help would be much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Ash.

How do you define a redundant process?
Author
21 Jan 2009 12:36 AM
ash
Hi,

Same process opening again and again with out closing the earlier one.

For example: If i go to Taskmanager and check the current running processes
then i want to find if there are more than one process running with the same
name . If so the script should send me an alert email mentioning about that
process.

Cheers,
Ash.

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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

>
> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:029843B3-7BF8-4628-8A86-FF3F5F33E014@microsoft.com...
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent processes
> > and
> > send me an email alert when that happens.
> > Your help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ash.
>
> How do you define a redundant process?
>
>
>
Author
21 Jan 2009 6:51 AM
Pegasus (MVP)
Just because a task appears several times in the Task Manager does not mean
that it is redundant. It is perfectly normal to have several tasks called
"svchost.exe", "cmd.exe" or others. Perhaps you can explain what you're
trying to achieve.


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"ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6548EEC4-92EE-4B99-8AF4-16E2D2A62117@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Same process opening again and again with out closing the earlier one.
>
> For example: If i go to Taskmanager and check the current running
> processes
> then i want to find if there are more than one process running with the
> same
> name . If so the script should send me an alert email mentioning about
> that
> process.
>
> Cheers,
> Ash.
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
>>
>> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:029843B3-7BF8-4628-8A86-FF3F5F33E014@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent
>> > processes
>> > and
>> > send me an email alert when that happens.
>> > Your help would be much appreciated.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Ash.
>>
>> How do you define a redundant process?
>>
>>
>>
Author
21 Jan 2009 6:52 AM
Al Dunbar
"ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6548EEC4-92EE-4B99-8AF4-16E2D2A62117@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Same process opening again and again with out closing the earlier one.
>
> For example: If i go to Taskmanager and check the current running
> processes
> then i want to find if there are more than one process running with the
> same
> name . If so the script should send me an alert email mentioning about
> that
> process.

That's not always an error. I often have two or more instances of notepad
open to examine multiple text files, each of which appears as a process.

/Al

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> Cheers,
> Ash.
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
>>
>> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:029843B3-7BF8-4628-8A86-FF3F5F33E014@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi Everyone,
>> >
>> > I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent
>> > processes
>> > and
>> > send me an email alert when that happens.
>> > Your help would be much appreciated.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Ash.
>>
>> How do you define a redundant process?
>>
>>
>>
Author
21 Jan 2009 10:36 PM
ash
Hi,

Some of the processes are not getting terminated when it completes the job.
We use Arkeia for backups. Arkeia uses a process called Arkfs.exe in windows.
I was monitoring process last week i found there were 50 and odd arkfs.exe
processes opened. What i am thinking is to develop a vbs script to send me a
report or such every day listing the duplicate/redundent processes running.
I will totally agree with you that there can be redundent processes.

Cheers,
Ash.

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"Al Dunbar" wrote:

>
> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6548EEC4-92EE-4B99-8AF4-16E2D2A62117@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Same process opening again and again with out closing the earlier one.
> >
> > For example: If i go to Taskmanager and check the current running
> > processes
> > then i want to find if there are more than one process running with the
> > same
> > name . If so the script should send me an alert email mentioning about
> > that
> > process.
>
> That's not always an error. I often have two or more instances of notepad
> open to examine multiple text files, each of which appears as a process.
>
> /Al
>
> > Cheers,
> > Ash.
> >
> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:029843B3-7BF8-4628-8A86-FF3F5F33E014@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi Everyone,
> >> >
> >> > I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent
> >> > processes
> >> > and
> >> > send me an email alert when that happens.
> >> > Your help would be much appreciated.
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Ash.
> >>
> >> How do you define a redundant process?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
Author
21 Jan 2009 11:07 PM
Pegasus (MVP)
If you're concerned about redundAnt arkfs.exe processes then you should
check specifically for these processes, not just for any redundAnt process,
perhaps like by getting the Task Scheduler to run this batch file once every
day:

@echo off
for /F %%a in ('tasklist ^| find /i /c "arkfs.exe"') do if %%a LSS 2 goto
:eof
blat.exe /.. /..

Blat.exe is a command line mailer that you can download from a number of
sites.
Note that line 2 in this batch file is a long line. It start with the word
"for" and ends with the word ":eof".

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"ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B838B81A-6223-4CDA-BC0E-3F4720043231@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> Some of the processes are not getting terminated when it completes the
> job.
> We use Arkeia for backups. Arkeia uses a process called Arkfs.exe in
> windows.
> I was monitoring process last week i found there were 50 and odd arkfs.exe
> processes opened. What i am thinking is to develop a vbs script to send me
> a
> report or such every day listing the duplicate/redundent processes
> running.
> I will totally agree with you that there can be redundent processes.
>
> Cheers,
> Ash.
>
> "Al Dunbar" wrote:
>
>>
>> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6548EEC4-92EE-4B99-8AF4-16E2D2A62117@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Same process opening again and again with out closing the earlier one.
>> >
>> > For example: If i go to Taskmanager and check the current running
>> > processes
>> > then i want to find if there are more than one process running with the
>> > same
>> > name . If so the script should send me an alert email mentioning about
>> > that
>> > process.
>>
>> That's not always an error. I often have two or more instances of notepad
>> open to examine multiple text files, each of which appears as a process.
>>
>> /Al
>>
>> > Cheers,
>> > Ash.
>> >
>> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:029843B3-7BF8-4628-8A86-FF3F5F33E014@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Hi Everyone,
>> >> >
>> >> > I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent
>> >> > processes
>> >> > and
>> >> > send me an email alert when that happens.
>> >> > Your help would be much appreciated.
>> >> >
>> >> > Cheers,
>> >> > Ash.
>> >>
>> >> How do you define a redundant process?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
Author
26 Jan 2009 5:40 AM
ash
Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I did found another way. I did a vb script:

1) To get all the process Name, Date and time when they started.
2) Write that info into a .csv file.
3) Send an email with that .csv file attached one in a week.

Thanks a lot for all the help :).

Cheers,
Ash.

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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:

> If you're concerned about redundAnt arkfs.exe processes then you should
> check specifically for these processes, not just for any redundAnt process,
> perhaps like by getting the Task Scheduler to run this batch file once every
> day:
>
> @echo off
> for /F %%a in ('tasklist ^| find /i /c "arkfs.exe"') do if %%a LSS 2 goto
> :eof
> blat.exe /.. /..
>
> Blat.exe is a command line mailer that you can download from a number of
> sites.
> Note that line 2 in this batch file is a long line. It start with the word
> "for" and ends with the word ":eof".
>
> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B838B81A-6223-4CDA-BC0E-3F4720043231@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some of the processes are not getting terminated when it completes the
> > job.
> > We use Arkeia for backups. Arkeia uses a process called Arkfs.exe in
> > windows.
> > I was monitoring process last week i found there were 50 and odd arkfs.exe
> > processes opened. What i am thinking is to develop a vbs script to send me
> > a
> > report or such every day listing the duplicate/redundent processes
> > running.
> > I will totally agree with you that there can be redundent processes.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ash.
> >
> > "Al Dunbar" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:6548EEC4-92EE-4B99-8AF4-16E2D2A62117@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Same process opening again and again with out closing the earlier one.
> >> >
> >> > For example: If i go to Taskmanager and check the current running
> >> > processes
> >> > then i want to find if there are more than one process running with the
> >> > same
> >> > name . If so the script should send me an alert email mentioning about
> >> > that
> >> > process.
> >>
> >> That's not always an error. I often have two or more instances of notepad
> >> open to examine multiple text files, each of which appears as a process.
> >>
> >> /Al
> >>
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Ash.
> >> >
> >> > "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> "ash" <a**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> >> news:029843B3-7BF8-4628-8A86-FF3F5F33E014@microsoft.com...
> >> >> > Hi Everyone,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I am looking for some Vbs scrip that can monitor for redundent
> >> >> > processes
> >> >> > and
> >> >> > send me an email alert when that happens.
> >> >> > Your help would be much appreciated.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Cheers,
> >> >> > Ash.
> >> >>
> >> >> How do you define a redundant process?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>