Monitor CPU Usage of All Running Processes - Part II

November 16, 2005

Part I of this article illustrated how to monitor CPU usage of running processes on a local machine or from a remote machine. This article illustrates how to monitor the CPU usage of different running processes on different machines and collect the information in a database.

This article uses the "Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process" WMI class to get the information from the performance counters of a machine.

Pre-requisite

Steps

IMLNODE1
ATDBQA
IMLNODE2
JC022247

Note: Please replace the list of machine names available on your network.

'Objective: To Find the CPU usage of each process that are running on a remote machine
'Created by : MAK
'Created Date: Nov 2, 2005
'Syntax: cscript Listremoteprocess2.vbs machinename
'Example: cscript Listremoteprocess2.vbs MyMachine
Set objArgs = WScript.Arguments
strComputer =objArgs(0)
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = 
objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process",,48)
'   wscript.echo "Computer Name" & "," & "Process Name" & ","& "CPU Usage"
For Each objItem in colProcesses
if objItem.Name <> "Idle"  and objItem.Name <> "_Total" then 
   wscript.echo strcomputer & ",
   " & objItem.Name & ",
   "& objItem.PercentProcessorTime
end if
Next

REM Objective: To execute the Listremoteprocess2.vbsfor every server listed in servers.txt
REM Created by: MAK
REM Created by" Nov 2, 2005
REM Usage: Listaprocessremote.bat Allservers.csv
dir %1
if %errorlevel% == 0 goto process
goto delfile
:delfile
del %1
goto process
:process
for /f "tokens=1 delims=&" %%i in (c:\Monitorprocess\Servers.txt) 
do cscript/nologo c:\Monitorprocess\Listremoteprocess2.vbs %%i >>%1
goto end
:end

Listaprocessremote.bat myserverprocess.csv

Or

c:\monitorprocess\Listaprocessremote.bat c:\monitorprocess\myserverprocess.csv

ATDBQA, sysdown, 0
ATDBQA, ClusSvc, 0
ATDBQA, cpqnimgt, 0
ATDBQA, cqmgserv, 0
ATDBQA, cqmgstor, 0
ATDBQA, cqmghost, 0
ATDBQA, cpqwmgmt, 0
ATDBQA, ResrcMon, 0
ATDBQA, naPrdMgr, 0
ATDBQA, wmiprvse, 0
ATDBQA, svchost, 0
ATDBQA, msdtc, 0
ATDBQA, sqlservr, 0
ATDBQA, sqlagent, 0
ATDBQA, DWRCS, 0
ATDBQA, locator, 0
ATDBQA, server, 0
ATDBQA, logon.scr, 0

create database MonitorProcesses
go
use MonitorProcesses
go
Create table Processes (
id int identity (1,1) not null,
ServerName varchar(128),
ProcessName varchar(256),
CPU_Usage int not null,
Time datetime constraint currentdate default getdate())
go
Create view Processes_view as
select ServerName,ProcessName, CPU_Usage from Processes
go
use master
go
sp_addlogin 'procuser','B07250BE','MonitorProcesses'
go
use MonitorProcesses
go
sp_adduser 'procuser'
go
sp_addrolemember 'db_datareader','procuser'
go
sp_addrolemember 'db_datawriter','procuser'
go

use MonitorProcesses
go
BULK INSERT MonitorProcesses.dbo.Processes_view 
   FROM 'c:\Monitorprocess\myserverprocess.csv'
   WITH 
      (
         FIELDTERMINATOR = ',',
         ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
      )

select * from Processes
select * from Processes where processname like '%SQLServr'
Select * from Processes where servername ='ATDBQA'

The result would look similar to that shown below.

Conclusion

This article has illustrated how to monitor the CPU usage of different running processes on different machines, how to collect the information in a database table and automate the import process by scheduling.

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