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Zabbix IIS 7 Worker Process Template

Zabbix IIS 7 Worker Process Template

Zabbix open source monitoring solution allow create templates for specific applications.

Zabbix Windows OS templates usually are combination from built-in performance counters with a reference to process name and optionaly PID.

Monitoring IIS is little bit tricky because working processes is created and recycled in various conditions and thus change their PID numbers or gone forever.

Solution

Use Zabbix Low-level discovery feature to find IIS 7 application pool names using appcmd.exe.

Use WMI script for specified application name to find the PID and then the required performance counter.

Installation

Copy files to Zabbix Agent directory (C:\Program Files\Zabbix)

• w3wp.conf
• w3wp-discovery.js
• w3wp-wmi.js

Append Zabbix Agent configuration file (zabbix_agentd.conf) with lines from file w3wp.conf or Include this file.

Import Zabbix template (iis-w3wp.xml) and assign to a Windows IIS host.