Remotely log CPU processes

[Mr-White]

I have a 2008 R2 VM (VMware) that I need to remotely log the processes it's running as every so often the CPUs max out and becomes unresponsive and needs a reboot. As the server becomes unresponsive I can't see what is actually causing it. Any ideas ?

MW

 

[Little_Crow]

tasklist or pslist (from sysinternals) will do what you want. Create a scheduled task to run every few minutes and append to a text file.

Of course if everything is completely locked up, there is no guarantee it'll run, but if you're lucky it might give you a hint.

 

[Mr-White]

I tried pslist and now trying process monitor as it continuously writes to file.

MW

 

[Worthy]

Do you use SCOM?

 

[jfish]

I have written a vbscript to do exactly this, it collects cpu ram usage and write it to a csv file (so you can create fancy graphs) and back end SQL database. It also has alerts so when cpu hits a threshold it will send an email out.

If interested I can post the vbscript here and yours to do as you please

 

[adamwri]

Would New Relic's server monitoring manage this for you? Not strictly designed to get this information as it's more based around application metrics and the server stuff seems to be a little offshoot from their core product - but it reports every minute and details enough for me that it'll do the job right.