Monitor if I have several instances of Excel open...

[snchestnut01]

Hello,

I hope this isn't a bother. I've been trying to find a solution to this, but don't seem to see anything on here about it. We have a server that kicks off a scheduled task that opens excel to insert data into a readable form for our Sales Department. However, as of late, Excel has been hanging and I was wondering if it's possible to get Nagios XI to notify me when Multiple copies of excel are open?

Thanks ahead of time.

[avandemore]

Developing custom plugins isn't part of support but here are some of the basics:
You'll need nsclient++ or something similar on the Windows system.
Configuring The Windows Agent: NSClient ++
Status's are governed by Return Codes eg 0 is Normal, 2 is Critical
The check_procs plugin does most of this. See https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 34&t=29045

Remember this only checks processes, not number of threads.

[gormank]

This just checks if a process is running, but its close... You just need to dd the count feature.

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H host-u -t 45 -c check_process2 -a excel.exe

nsclient.ini:check_process2 = cscript.exe //T:30 //NoLogo scripts\\check_process2.vbs $ARGS"$

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C:\Users\gormke1\Documents\Nagios>cat C:\Users\gormke1\Documents\Nagios\Nagios.d.windows\Agents\Scripts\check_process2.vbs
' This script is special to find a process in the process list that is running with specific text in the command line
' Takes in 3 Arguments
' 1) name of process
' 2) search text for commandline
' 3) If you just want to warn put a 1 else anything else will be critical

IsTheProcessThere = 0
If NOT WScript.Arguments.Count >= 2 Then
    WScript.Echo "This script has three arguments. 1) The process name ; 2) Text looking for in the command 3) Optional = 1 if you want to just WARN"
        WScript.Quit 3
Else
        ProcessName =  WScript.Arguments.Item(0)
        TextInCommandLine =  WScript.Arguments.Item(1)
                If WScript.Arguments.Count = 3 Then
                JustWarn = WScript.Arguments.Item(2)
                Else
                JustWarn = 1111 'whatever you want just not 1
                End if

        Set Service = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & ComputerName &"")
                for each Process in Service.InstancesOf ("Win32_Process")
                        If Process.name = ProcessName Then
                                'OK we pass that test
                                If NOT InStr(Process.CommandLine, TextInCommandLine) = 0 Then
                                        'We passed all tests so we are good to say we found everything....go report
                                        IsTheProcessThere = 1
                                End if
                        End if
                next

        If IsTheProcessThere = 1 Then
                WScript.Echo "OK - Found " & ProcessName & " with a commandline containing '" & TextInCommandLine & "'"
                WScript.Quit 0
        Else
                WScript.Echo "Problem - Process " & ProcessName & " with the commandline search text '" & TextInCommandLine& "' is not running!"
                If JustWarn = 1 Then
                        WScript.Quit 1
                Else
                        WScript.Quit 2
                End if
        End if
End if

[tgriep]

Another option is to use the check_process command to check for if Excell is running.
The below example will give a warning if greater than 2 copies are running and a critical for over 3.

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -c check_process -a process=EXCEL.exe "warning=count>2" "critical=count>3" show-all

Try that and let us know if it works for you.