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Scripts to monitor Processes

Monitoring Process Availability
Monitoring Process Creation
Monitoring Process Deletion
Monitoring Process Performance
Monitoring Processor Use by Process

Monitoring Process Availability


Identifies whether or not a hypothetical process Database.exe is running.
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_Process Where Name = 'Database.exe'")
If colProcesses.Count = 0 Then
    Wscript.Echo "Database.exe is not running."
Else
    Wscript.Echo "Database.exe is running."
End If

Monitoring Process Creation


Temporary event consumer that issues an alert each time a new process is created.
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colMonitoredProcesses = objWMIService. _        
    ExecNotificationQuery("select * from __instancecreationevent " _ 
        & " within 1 where TargetInstance isa 'Win32_Process'")
i = 0
Do While i = 0
    Set objLatestProcess = colMonitoredProcesses.NextEvent
    Wscript.Echo objLatestProcess.TargetInstance.Name
Loop

Monitoring Process Deletion


Temporary event consumer that issues an alert each time a process terminates.
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colMonitoredProcesses = objWMIService. _
    ExecNotificationQuery("select * from __instancedeletionevent " _ 
            & "within 1 where TargetInstance isa 'Win32_Process'")
i = 0
Do While i = 0
    Set objLatestProcess = colMonitoredProcesses.NextEvent
    Wscript.Echo objLatestProcess.TargetInstance.Name
Loop

Monitoring Process Performance


Reports statistics such as thread count and working set size for all processes running on a computer.
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_Process")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
    Wscript.Echo "Process: " & objProcess.Name 
    Wscript.Echo "Process ID: " & objProcess.ProcessID 
    Wscript.Echo "Thread Count: " & objProcess.ThreadCount 
    Wscript.Echo "Page File Size: " & objProcess.PageFileUsage 
    Wscript.Echo "Page Faults: " & objProcess.PageFaults 
    Wscript.Echo "Working Set Size: " & objProcess.WorkingSetSize 
Next

Monitoring Processor Use by Process


Reports processor use time, in seconds, for each process running on a computer.
strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
    & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * from Win32_Process")
For Each objProcess in colProcesses
    sngProcessTime = ( CSng(objProcess.KernelModeTime) + _
            CSng(objProcess.UserModeTime)) / 10000000
    Wscript.echo objProcess.name & VbTab & sngProcessTime
Next