Process Instance Count, Uses WMI to determine the number of running instances of a process. Options

[kprestage]

Some people have asked for this on the wishlist, so I thought I would take a stab at it.

CODE

-- Version: 4.0
-- Date: 2009-10-29
-- Description:  Counts the number of instances of a process that are running
-- Arguments: process name, minimum count, maximum count
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-- This function is called by INM to retrieve a script configuration

function OnConfigure()

    -- The variable returned must be called "Config" so INM can find it.
    Config = LuaScriptConfigurator()

    -- Author.
    Config:SetAuthor("Kevin Prestage")

    -- Description.
    Config:SetDescription("Counts the number of instances of a process that are running")

    -- Minimum build version of INM, set to zero for if no specific build version is required.
    Config:SetMinBuildVersion(4.0)

    -- Script version (major/minor)
    Config:SetScriptVersion(1,0)

    -- A parameter configuration, add them in the order the script is extracting them.
    Config:AddArgument("Process Name","Enter the process name as it appears in task manager",LuaScriptConfigurator.CHECK_NOT_EMPTY)
    Config:AddArgument("Minimum Instance(s)","Monitor will go into alarm if the number of instance running falls below this number.",LuaScriptConfigurator.CHECK_NOT_EMPTY)
    Config:AddArgument("Minimum Instance(s)","Monitor will go into alarm if the number of instance running rises above this number.",LuaScriptConfigurator.CHECK_NOT_EMPTY)

    -- Set the entry point, this is the function called by INM
    Config:SetEntryPoint("main")

    -- Done with configuration, return the object
    return Config
end

-- This is the entry point

function main()

    processname = GetArgument(0)
    min = tonumber(GetArgument(1))
    max = tonumber(GetArgument(2))
    ok = true
      result = ""
    count = 0
    SetExitStatus("OK",true)


    --Query WMI for a list of all processes running on the machine.
    Query = TLuaWMIQuery();
    b  = Query:Execute("Select * from Win32_Process where Name = \"" .. processname .. "\"");

    --if the query failed, set the result.
      if (b == false) then
         result = "An error occurred querying WMI.  " .. Query:GetErrorDescription();
      else

        while (Query:NextInstance()) do
            count = count + 1
        end


        if (count < min) then
            result = "The number of running instances is " .. count .. " which is less than " .. min
            ok = false
        elseif (count > max) then
            result = "The number of running instances is " .. count .. " which is more than " .. max
            ok = false
        else
            result = "The number of running instances is " .. count .. " which is between " .. min .. " and " .. max
            ok = true
        end
    end
    SetExitStatus(result,ok);
end