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Looking for a way to monitor for the program running on a Windows system. The program is an executable called client.exe that loads into memory as a process when running. I have tried turning the process into a service with no luck.

While I can monitor for the process count I need to monitor weather or not the process is running and present a "critical" notification if the process is not running.

Hi @Hasts1960,

The NCPA agent can monitor processes on windows. I recommend installing the NCPA agent on your windows server and using the XI wizard for adding the process to monitoring.

There are also quite a few posts on the forum seeking to do exactly this if you do a search. I will include one here now: viewtopic.php?t=56283

Good luck!

Hi @Hasts1960,

As @cdietsch's suggested, NCPA is an excellent way to monitor Windows Processes (and Services). In addition, XI also has a few other wizards that will allow you to monitor Windows Processes and Services.

• Windows WinRM
• Windows SSH
• Windows SNMP

cdietsch wrote: ↑Tue Dec 09, 2025 11:17 am Hi @Hasts1960,

The NCPA agent can monitor processes on windows. I recommend installing the NCPA agent on your windows server and using the XI wizard for adding the process to monitoring.

There are also quite a few posts on the forum seeking to do exactly this if you do a search. I will include one here now: viewtopic.php?t=56283

Good luck!

Could you please share the NCPA agent installation file? I don't know where to find it.

Hi,

Here is the link for NCPA which contains the download as well as documentation: https://www.nagios.org/projects/ncpa/

Good luck!

Thanks a lot.