Check Process memory consumption and Kill it

Question

Hello
I have just installed Orchestrator and have a problem that I think is perfekt for Orchestrator to handle.
I have a process that sometimes hangs and the only way to spot it is that the memory consumption has stoped.
The process is started every 15 minutes and scans a folder, if it finds a file it reads the file to a system. You can see that it is working by the increasing Memory consumption. If the read fails then the memory consumption stops. The process is still working
and is responding but is hung.
I'm thinking about doing a runbook that checks the memory-consumption every 5 minutes and compares it with the previous value. if the last three values are the same then I will kill the process and start it again.
My problem is that I have not found a way to check the memory consumption of a process.
I have set up a small test, just verify that I get the correct process, with the activity Monitor process -> Get Process Status -> Append Line (process name).
But How do I get the process memory consumption?
/Anders

Answer 1

Now that I think about it a bit more I don't think there will be an easy way to set up a monitor for your situation in SCOM. Not that it couldn't be done, just not easily. Getting back to SCORCH. What you are trying to do isn't an every day kind of
scenario. I don't think there is a built in activity for this.
The hardest thing to overcome whether you use SCORCH or SCOM is likely going to be determining the error condition of three consecutive samples of the same memory usage. you'll need a way to track the samples. I can't think of a good way to do
this without utilizing scripting.