Entering Search Criteria

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The Process Monitoring tool also allows you to enter search criteria to identify the process to be monitored:

1.In the PATROL Console, right-click the Application icon and select KM Commands > New > Process monitoring...
2.Select Enter criteria to identify and monitor processes and click Next. The following dialog box is displayed:

WIZ_ProcessMonitoring_3Criteria

Process Monitoring Wizard — Enter criteria to identify and monitor processes

3.(Optional) Click the View Processes button to list the currently running processes.
4.Specify your search criteria:
▪In the section The name of the process..., select a condition option and enter the string to be searched.
▪In the section AND the command line that launched the process... , select a condition option and enter a regular expression. Only processes that have been launched by a command-line that matches this regular expression will be monitored.
▪In the field AND the process must be running as this user, enter the user name the monitored process is running as.
▪Click Next.

Examples:

Criteria

Processes that match the criteria

Example 1

•Process name MUST BE EXACTLY patrolagent.exe
•Command-line = <nothing>
•User Identity = <nothing>

PatrolAgent.Exe

C:\Patrol\PatrolAgent.exe -p 3181

C:\Patrol\PatrolAgent.exe

Example 2

•Process name MUST BE EXACTLY patrolagent.exe
•Command-line MUST MATCH THE REGULAR EXPRESSION -[pP] 3181
•User Identity = <nothing>

C:\Patrol\PatrolAgent.exe -p 13181

Example 3


•Process name MUST CONTAIN Pat
•Command-line = <nothing>
•User Identity = <nothing>

PatrolAgent.exe

PatProcess.exe

PatrolPerf.exe

WarningSearch criteria are case-sensitive on UNIX and Linux.

4.Select the parameters to be monitored for this process and click Next.
5.Configure the Monitoring Studio settings
6.Click Finish.