Sensors > Operating System Sensors > Process Sensor (Windows)

The Process Sensor allows you to monitor processes on the local or on a remote Windows system.

Note:

If more than one process with a given name is found, the first returned by the system will be monitored.

Sensor Tasks

Test Sensor	Tests the current sensor settings.
Get Help	Opens the ServerSentinel online help for the current sensor.

Basic Settings

Name

The name of the sensor (max. 100 characters). Choose a meaningful name to clearly identify the sensor.

Sensor is Active

Toggles the sensor ON/OFF.

Check Interval

The interval or times at which which the sensor should perform its checks.

Simple	The sensor performs its checks every x time units, e.g. every 10 minutes.
Daily	The sensor performs its checks daily at one or more (max. 4) fixed times, e.g. daily at 0 and 12 o'clock.
Weekly	The sensor performs its checks at certain days of the weeks at one or more (max. 4) fixed times, e.g. monday to friday at 12 o'clock.
Monthly	The sensor performs its checks at certain days of the month at one or more (max. 4) fixed times, e.g. every 1st of the month at 12 o'clock.

Only check if this Sensor didn't fail

This sensor will only be checked, if the sensor in the drop down list didn't fail.

Further Information

Comment

Short additional information to the sensor (max. 255 characters).

Connection Settings

Host	The IP address or DNS name of host which should be monitored (max. 255 characters).
Credentials	Here you can either select an existing credential object, create a new one by inserting a display name, an username and a password.

Process specific Options

Name of the process to watch

The name of the process that should be watched (max. 255 characters).

Meta Data Values

Data Value	Data Type	Description
Checktime	Date	The time the dataset has been created.
Exception Message	String	The message of the error if any occurred.
Response Time	Integer	The response time needed to perform the check.
Status	String	A status string that may contain arbitrary information that was collected by the sensor (max. 255 characters). Per default this value is empty.
Status Flag	Enum	The status of the sensor after the check has been performed.

Data Values

Data Value	Data Type	Description
CPU usage	Integer	The CPU time of the process in percent.
Handles	Integer	The number of open handles for this process.
ID of Parent Process	Integer	The process ID of the parent process.
ID of Process	Integer	The system assigned process ID.
Memory usage	Integer	The memory usage of the process.
Memory usage (Private bytes)	Integer	Current size of the memory that this process has allocated that cannot be shared with other processes.
Memory usage (Virtual bytes)	Integer	Current size of the virtual address space that this process is using.
No. of Threads	Integer	The number of threads the process runs.
Priority	Integer	The system assigned process priority.
Result of Query	String	The result of the WMI query.