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Processes Plugin - How to monitor all instances of a process that starts up with different arguments or monitor each instance count separately?

To monitor all instances of a process, just define the name of the process string to search for. To monitor individual instances of a process, each instance has to be defined with its unique search string.

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Example Copied

If I have 3 instances of the vim process running like below:

1. vim -F
2. vim
3. vim -F -T testing

To monitor all instances, define vim as the search string, and the processes plugin should already take the three processes above.

Result:

To monitor each instance separately requires defining three unique search strings:

Result:

Note: atEndOfLine match rule was used in the example above. Rules are listed and explained in the documentation below.

• https://docs.itrsgroup.com/docs/geneos/current/collection/processes/index.html#id--rules