Reputation: 29
Process monitor on windows server 2003
We have a third party vendor running a program/service on my servers. We need to monitor that process and see if that process is using a lot of memory or dumping/uploading lot of data or accessing any other process/stuff that it is supposed not to access.
What is the best possible way to do this? Since it is a prod box, we are not supposed to install any software on the server. So, any default tools (like Regmon/Filemon) that comes with Win 2003 would be great. But, if there is no tools that can help, I can get persmissions to install s/w.
tldr; need to keep an eye on a process using default windows tools. What is the best way??
Any help/pointers is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 5631
Answers (2)
Reputation: 119
The SuperUser question at How to use ProcMon on Windows XP - Get an error about InitializeSRWLock mentions that versions 3.5X, 3.20, and 3.10 work on Windows XP / Server 2003.
Links to Internet Archive WayBack Machine downloads are present in the answers there.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 14638
As a first regmon and filemon does not comes with any windows version neither desktop nor server edition.
It is product of sysinternals (M. Rusenovich) currently are covered by MS, but not bundled in any version of OS.
Standard tools are called performance counters and are available through manage computer context menu on "My Computer" icon, or just by running perfmon.exe or perfmon.msc
You can setup exact what you want to track.
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