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Identifying processes causing 100% cpu usage [duplicate]
Some users report high CPU usage on their computers during ordinary activities (like Teams calls).
How can I collect a report of processes causing high CPU usage over a few hours?
I would like to use ...
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Monitor Services and Event Logs on Windows Servers
We are standing up a new environment and will be installing SIEM tools, etc. in the future.
We have a few dozen Windows 2019 servers so far. I've been tasked with providing a solution for monitoring ...
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How to see which ports a process is using?
While testing our software, a large corporate customer was able to detect the third-party licensing software using port 137.
Up until this point we have only been aware of the license software using ...
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Is there a way to monitor remotly multiple windows server for hardware performance? [closed]
We have 5 server installed as VM with "Windows Server 2016" on VMWware. These servers are configured as RDS, means multiple users are working on it. Users which are connected on these ...
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Shinken probe on windows server but windows server on VPN network (monitoring server outside VPN)
I need to monitore a windows server with skinken, but this server is accessible with a VPN connection (with strong security, done by an electronic tool and human action).
The monitoring server is not ...
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How to monitor all the processes from a user in windows server 2012?
I would like to monitoring all the processes which are invoked by a user within a period of time, like a couple of hours, some process may only run less than a second.
what is the best way to do? ...
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Windows Event Forwarding and Sysmon
I'm dealing with a bit of an issue relating to WEF and sysmon
I have the collector server setup and 2 domain controllers are configured via GPO to send events to WEF collector.
It is configured via ...
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Zabbix low-level discovery - CPU usage per process - two items with identical keys
I'm trying to use Zabbix for monitoring CPU usage by different processes on Windows Server. Processes to monitor are not determined upfront. I want to use LLD to monitor top 3 CPU demanding processes.
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How does Windows Resource Monitor report the disk I/O related to virtual memory reads/writes?
In Resource Monitor, under Disk > Disk Activity, a list of files is shown along with the disk read/write B/sec being performed on each. When memory is paged to disk (ie. virtual memory is written), ...
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Monitor Windows Server network data transfer [duplicate]
I would like to monitor the amount of data transferred (Network Out) in a Windows Server. The traffic is composed mainly of files downloaded from IIS.
Is there some software or Windows Feature that I ...
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snmpd.conf - TImeout with Centos
First of all i want to say i did a lot of researches and i read tons of examples for the last 3 days but i didn't find a solution that's why i am posting here.
I would like to monitor services and ...
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check_mk logwatch monitoring log with date in filename on windows
In windows, is there a way to setup dynamic dates on logs filenames monitoring using check_mk_agent's [logfiles] section??
In linux I know we can use $(date +%Y%m%d), but don't know if it works on ...
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Monitor windows clients network connectivity [closed]
I support a family members small business in my free time. They have 8 laptops running Windows 10. Their actual work gets done on a Windows Server 2016 Remote Desktop Server (running in Amazon AWS).
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Monitor File Server for transient file locking
I have an IIS webservice (commercial product) that writes files to a remote Windows file server using UNC.
From time to time, particularly when writing a large number of small files in a batch, the ...
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textfile for Windows
I need to export some custom metrics generated by a script under Windows.
Under Linux, I am already doing it, based on Robust Perception / Brian Brazil article :
The node exporter includes many ...
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Icinga 2 check_logfiles with Agent on Windows
I'd like to add a check_logfiles command on a windows machine.
Do I have to use the NSClient++ or is it possible to do this with the Icinga 2 Client wich is already installed?
I configured the Service ...
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Monitoring - Calculate bandwidth usage of images
Is there a way to find out the bandwidth usage of a certain mime-type on Windows Server?
Eg. How much GB of images is my server serving each month?
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How can I monitor deletion of a file on a Windows server?
I have a .bat file on a Windows 2012 R2 server that is periodically executed to refresh the app pools on an IIS server. From time to time, this operation fails because the file has been deleted (by ...
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which monitoring tool is good for monitoring system hardware,software,user management and network activity for all kind of operating system? [closed]
Please kindly suggest me the tool for monitoring the system hardware, software, applications, services, user management and network related activities of IT Infrastructure.
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Good representative CPU usage score for a multi-core server?
I'm trying to simplify a monitoring system we have.
It has a variety of views for looking at the CPU usage of a server including:
Average CPU usage (overall, this accounts for all cores).
Low and ...
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Monitoring server uptime with telegraf / grafana on windows
I'm aware that there are countless solutions for monitoring uptime on windows servers but I want to specifically ask about Influx's server agent, telegraf.
We currently have a nice influxdb/grafana/...
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Server Bandwidth monitoring Windows Server 2012 (with historic data)
I have a requirement to monitor the amount of bandwidth used on a Windows 2012 Server with historic data of what application has used the bandwidth (not just the bandwidth used). This is required ...
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ossec realtime file monitoring only reports on first change but fullow up changes are only reported by scheduled follow up scans
we currently have some ossec agents running on windows and real time monitoring for files activated - with the following configuration on the agent site:
<syscheck>
<!-- Frequency that ...
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SMS_ReplicationLinkSummary Server WMI Class - Status values
I'm trying to monitor a SCCM environment via a non-SCOM system that primarily uses WMI as a management interface.
I've found the following class:
SMS_ReplicationLinkSummary Server WMI Class
There ...
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Set Low Disk Space email alerts for windows 10
I want to set email alerts for my disks, so that if there would be 30GB free space then I will get an email alert.
I found some solutions for windows 2008 but they didn't work for me in Windows 10.
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monitor windows server - running behind firewall using WMI
I'm havingg 100 windows machines which is running behind the firewall. But my monitoring server is running outside the network [ public].
For SNMP , I can put one proxy server inside the internal ...
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Monitor latency by IP on a bridge-enabled host
Is there a tool which captures packets, measure latency in realtime and display it with some IP filtering options for Windows ?
My particular setup :
Internet -> Router -> Host Master -> Host Slave
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Windows post-patching monitoring
We currently provide patch management as a service to a large number of servers. Historically, we have had tier 1 type technicians RDP to each machine after the patching window to verify they are ...
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Monitor hardware on servers [closed]
In my company, we deliver hardware installations that all have a dedicated server (Windows Server 2008, 2012).
It's usually part of our customers' job to make sure the server stays healthy (by ...
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Auto restart services with PRTG
I have PRTG monitoring my servers and network. Some of my servers are Windows-based, and I would like PRTG to auto restart services in case they are stopped.
This can be done using the WMI Service ...
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is there a tool for windows 7 that can find which program is modifying a particular file [duplicate]
My system is infected by a malware that keeps modifying a particular configuration file. Is there a way/tool to find out which program is making change to a particular file?
I am simply looking for a ...
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Windows Pagefile monitoring with Nagios
I have a NAGIOS check that monitors virtual memory on a windows machine, this check returns all the virtual memory used (physical+ max size of the pagefile).
This is not what I want, I have tried to ...
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How to send Windows Performance counters to Logstash + Kibana?
I would like to setup monitoring for system resources on my Windows servers. I've noticed a common configuration in Linux is to use collectd daemon to get system metrics information. From collectd ...
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Can Perfmon be used to monitor free space on a (mounted) SMB share?
Is there a way to use Windows Perfmon to monitor available space on a (mounted) SMB share?
For example: on server ABC, I'd have a share \\DEF\SharedFiles mounted. As I can't set up any monitoring on ...
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Using OSSEC to monitor windows services
I'm using OSSEC to trying and monitor services on servers such as Windows Event Log.
I would like to know if a service has stopped or started and get emailed accordingly.
I have tried a rule that ...
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Determine what has changed a specific key on Windows registry [closed]
History :
My C drive disappeared from "Computer" on my Win7. After fixing it a couple of days ago by changing a registry key, I notice today that my C drive has disappeared AGAIN.
(HKEY_CURRENT_USER\...
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Why perfmon for remote desktop servers get an empty file (only time stamp)?
I'm trying to remotely monitor a server using perfmon, the output file is always empty and only the time stamp field is there?
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Can't Reinstall Solarwinds 9.2 after installing 10.9.1 Trial version
I am having an issue I am hoping someone can help me with. I own a copy of an older version of solarwinds 9.2, I decided I wanted to give the new solarwinds version a try so I decided to download it. ...
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Testing IPsec with Nagios / Icinga?
Several of my Windows servers are running IPsec. There are a small handful that have problems when rebooting with the IPsec services not coming up.
As a result I'd like to set up a monitoring check ...
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How do I see all processes start (both linux AND win)? [closed]
I have a situation in which I need to monitor processes starting. I have found lots of ways to see what processes are running at any given moment (e.g. by polling), but sometimes processes start and ...
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How can I monitor and graph this WMI/WQL data?
How can I graph this data? Looking for a non-cumbersome way to put this data into a graph/webpage.
select writeiops from Win32_PerfFormattedData_ISEVirtualDisks_ISEVirtualDisks WHERE NAME = "trax2"
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Monitor HTTP usage on network from Linux free [closed]
I manage a small office network. I am looking to start monitoring/logging internet usage (website requests) for each user on a small network. All the windows clients are running through a switch to a ...
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Monitor the background in Windows or the Windows login screen from changes
This isn't a typical question and I thought of posting this to Programmers Stack Exchange, but I believe here is more fitting.
What I want to do is monitor the Windows background or Login screen from ...
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Monitoring Windows Hard Drives
When you run several 100 windows servers and even business systems, what is a good option for monitoring hard disks and checking for bad sectors?
Are there applications out there that can send e-mail ...
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Zabbix - monitoring custom values
I have a Windows application (exposed through a WCF service) which needs to be monitored for some statistics (e.g. a graph of online users, a graph of pending documents etc.).
I am new to Zabbix, and ...
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Tracking Individual Processes in Windows Server 2008, Is It Possible?
I'm hoping we can get a solution together on this. I'm looking to try and narrow down what's happening on a windows server 2008 box that's causing us to have to reboot every 2 weeks. Resource ...
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Automating RDP session availability test
We have a daily procedure when operator logs on via RDP to Windows hosts to ensure the operation is successful so other users can logon at the later stage and to their work.
Putting aside question ...
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Monitoring software for diskspace on windows servers
I'm looking for a lightweight solution to monitor diskspace on windows servers and sent the report to a monitor server that presents the data in a nice gui. The server software can be linux or windows....
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Is there a way to collect WMI or WBEM/CIM data with Collectd?
I've got an Ubuntu server running statsd, collectd and Graphite. I'm looking to collect data from Windows servers via WMI. I don't see an official plugin for WMI or WBEM/CIM on Collectd's web site. Is ...
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finding the user - without knowing the innards of IIS
Place of crime is WinSrv2008 with IIS7.
My IIS apppool user is trying to create a folder but fails. How do I find out which User it is?
Let's say I don't know much about IIS7 and Aspnet but need ...
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