CPU/Memory Monitors – Include Top Processes in Alert Description

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Here is a Management Pack that I wrote for a customer a while back.  The requirement was to take the alerting for CPU Utilization and Available Memory from the Windows Server Management Pack and add the top 5 processes consuming CPU/Memory to the Alert Description.

The MP that I wrote for this is attached

• The MP contains replicas of the “Available Megabytes of Memory” and “Total CPU Utilization Percentage” Monitors from the Windows Server MPs


• The only change is a modification to the VBScript to get the Top 5 processes and include them in the Property Bag and Alert.


• The memory monitor will show the top 5 instances of Process\Private Bytes


• The CPU monitor will show the top 5 instances of Process\% Processor Time


• The MP has separate Monitors for Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012

Screenshots of the alerts are below:

SAMPLE.Windows.Server.CPU_Memory.Monitoring.zip