Checking for a running process on a remote Windows machine is an ideal way to check availability of essential production services. Using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) this is straight forward, and can be quickly set up as a DBTuna custom command alert.

The following steps guide you through this process:

1. Download and unzip the WMI VBScript file from: www.dbtuna.com/check_proc.zip and place it in your [dbtuna install dir]agent directory.

2. You can call it by running cscript.exe check_proc.vbs servername username password which will return the list of running processes from the remote server e.g.

3. Once you know the name of the process you are looking for, then you can call the script with an additional parameter of the process name.

e.g. 

This command would check for the Carbonite backup process running on the remote machine.

4. Create a new Custom Command Alert within DBTuna/Alerts e.g.

N.B. Please note that the cscript command has a //Nologo parameter too, which means that if the process is found to be running then it returns nothing, but if it is missing then it triggers the alert. Make sure you check that you can call the script from the command line ok before creating the alert. Also, if you have any directories containing spaces (Program Files etc.) then you will need to double quote them.