Monitor WinWord uptime?

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gregg_hughes_ISC
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Monitor WinWord uptime?

Post by gregg_hughes_ISC »

Good morning, all!

Management has asked if I can persuade Nagios to monitor some Windows servers to alert if WinWord is hung. I think I can get NSClient++ to monitor the state of an application, but not whether the application has been running for XX time, say, an hour or two. I might also be able to wrap a PowerShell script, but wanted to see if there was a less cumbersome way to get to the goal. Needless to say, I'm hoping I can extend this to other applications.

Has anyone looked into this?

Thanks for all suggestions!


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jdalrymple
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Re: Monitor WinWord uptime?

Post by jdalrymple »

Gregg - curious - is this related to a large commercial EHR?

I had a situation where it was expected behavior for winword to process macros creating many hundred page reports, but on occasion they'd hang and need to be restarted. If that is the scenario I may be able to dig up some of my old code. If not then we can probably still help, cputime is a wmi-able query if I'm not mistaken and that's probably where I'd start looking.
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