You may have the situation that you wanna monitor processes on a windows host. For example a process like e.g. winlogon,exe

This kbase article explains a very simple usecase where you want to get notified whenever this process is gone/crashed/disappeared.

 

Configuration

 

 

whenever the process is gone, this perfcounter key does not exist anylonger → this condition becomes true ad fires off the notification

 

Winlogon Process on ${gl:commonName(config.nodeDefinition.name)} is NOT running!

 

 

save/close

 

DONE

 

Conclusion

from now on you get notified whenever the winlogon process is gone (smile)