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Process Monitor

The Process Monitor for servers collects performance metrics such as CPU, disk I/O, memory, etc. of all processes on servers running Windows, Linux, Unix and other platforms. Currently, the following methods are supported for retrieving process data:

Note: The Process Monitor only collects performance metrics and displays and reports on that data. Alert thresholds and notifications cannot currently be set using Process Monitor.

Enabling the Process Monitor

Edit the device you wish to enable process monitoring on, and select the Enable Process Collection checkbox. You will need to select the monitor type appropriate for your host, and you will be able to use any existing credentials, or create a new set of credentials.

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Note: You will need to reload the Device Summary screen once you have made this change, for the Process List entry to become available.

Using the Process Monitor

  1. Navigate to a Device Summary page for a device.
  2. Click the Process List link.

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  3. The process list UI can (depending upon the data available from the SNMP or WMI agent on the server) present you with CPU utilization by process, Memory utilization by process, and Disk I/O activity by process. Additionally, Traverse will show you the PID (process ID), how long Traverse has observed the process to be running, and how many instances of the process are currently running. Traverse will also provide on the left hand side of the screen, a Top 5 graph for the last 24 hours, of CPU consumers, Memory Consumers, and Disk I/O Consumers (when available).

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  4. Mousing over the process name, will highlight a flashlight icon, which can be selected to provide a 24 hour report of the data collected for that process. This report can be saved out in PDF format, or the parameters may be saved so that you can run it again at a later date, or as a scheduled report. A sample of the PDF output is shown.

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    At this time, Traverse only supports this data collection through SNMP, and WMI (Support for other agents such as NRPE, Munin, Zabbix, etc. is also being considered). Process collection is not available for non-server devices (routers, switches, load balancers, etc).