Monitor IIS application pools
SolarWinds SAM can monitor five instances (for example, w3wp.exe), differentiated by application pools separately if you specify the application pool names in the component monitors.
- Click Settings > All Settings.
- Add the web server to the SolarWinds Platform database.
- Click Add Node then enter the hostname or IP address of the Intranet web server.
- Check the ICMP (Ping only) check box and then click Next.
- From the Add Application Monitors page, click Next.
- From the Change Properties page, Click OK, Add Node.
- Find the
wp3w.exe
process on the web server.- In the SolarWinds Platform Web Console, click Settings > All Settings > SAM Settings > Component Monitor Wizard.
- Select Process Monitor - WMI as the monitor type, and then click Next.
- Click Browse, select the web server, and then click Select.
- Enter WebServerAdmin in the Credential Name field.
- Enter your credentials in the fields provided, then click Next.
- Click the last page button to view the last page, then check the check box next to
w3wp.exe
, and then click Next. - Change Monitor Name to Webpool1, then enter webpool1 in the Command Line Filter field.
- Change the CPU Warning Threshold to greater than 40, then Change the CPU Critical Threshold to greater than 50.
- Click Add Another Component. After creating the monitors for all five w3wp.exe instances, click Next.
- Select New Application Monitor and enter Web Server Application Pools as the Application Monitor Name, and then click Next.
- Select the web server node, and then click Next, then click OK, Create.