I have a map running that shows top 10 CPU, I would like to know if there is a way to associate and show with the processes on the relevant node either by some standard process or grammatically?

Thanks, James.

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Dear James

Since there is no standard PRTG component for this, you could use a custom script which gets the process names (for example using Powershell) and creates a sensor message. The map object 'Status Icon' / 'Sensor Message only' allows to display the sensor name and message only.


Sep, 2014 - Permalink

Hi Arne,

Thanks for the reply. So to clarify, If i created a sensor for each Linux device a custom SSH script that ran a command like ps -eo pcpu,pid,user | sort -k 1 -r | head -6 to show me the top 5 processes by CPU can these be displayed in PRTG? and could I then create a custom top list to display the top 10 servers by CPU load?

Thanks, James.


Sep, 2014 - Permalink

Dear James

Sadly is it not that easy, as a PRTG sensor message cannot have line breaks. Each message is a string up to 2000 characters log, allowing you to show messages but not lists or tables. This means you would need 10 sensors to show 10 messages.

An Exe/Script sensor has the output format

value:message

For example

55:emacs

or

1004:hangman

The message here is "emacs" or "hangman". The value is the value stored in the historic data (sensor messages are not stored in the historic data!)


Sep, 2014 - Permalink