See Section 4, “Editing a WMI Monitoring Profile” for details on how to specify which Processes you want to monitor and how you want to be alerted.Ĭheck the Default Profile box if you want to make this the new default WMI Monitoring profile. In addition, check the types of Alerts you want to send for each Monitored Metric. This opens the “WMI Monitoring Settings” dialog box.Ĭreate a new Profile by entering the Monitoring Profile Name and checking the Enabled boxes next to the metrics you want to monitor. To create a WMI Monitoring Profile go to the Nectus Home Screen and select Monitoring -> WMI Monitoring Settings. Monitoring for stopped Windows Processes lets you respond quickly to the failure of an important business Process. If you know the names of the Processes associated with a specific virus, Nectus can notify you if any of those Processes starts running on one of your servers. You can also watch for specific Processes you don’t want on your servers.įor example, viruses run as Processes. Nectus can notify you when these Processes run, ensuring you that everything starts properly. You will normally want a particular set of Windows Processes running on your servers. Note: WMI is the Microsoft implementation of the Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standard and the Common Information Model (CIM) standard from the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF).

In this chapter we look at how Nectus uses WMI to monitor the status of Windows Processes and send Alerts based on that status. WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) is a set of specifications and interfaces that provides information about the status of local and remote computers running Microsoft Windows. Assigning a Profile to a WMI Server Group.The specific topics we will cover in this chapter are: Nectus lets you create profiles that specify which Processes to monitor with WMI and to send Alerts related to them. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to use WMI to monitor Windows Processes.

Windows process monitoring tools