Task monitor windows

Click on the Start Menu and select All Apps. Then, scroll down to find Windows Tools and unfold it. In the Windows Tools window, find and click Performance Monitor to open it. If you use Windows Performance Monitor frequently, you can consider pinning it to your Start Menu or taskbar for quick access. The process is not complicated.

Then, right-click on the best result and choose Pin to Start or Pin to taskbar. Similarly, you can create a desktop shortcut for Performance Monitor to use it often. Next, you are able to arrive at the Performance Monitor program within Computer Management. Search and open Computer Management in Windows Search. Then, in the Computer Management window, click on Performance to use the system monitoring function. You cannot interrupt the inheritance for schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows.

The corresponding settings from the parent objects are always active. However, you can define additional settings here. They are active at the same time as the parent objects' settings. Select a schedule from the list. Schedules can be used to monitor for a certain time span days or hours every week.

You can create schedules, edit schedules, or pause monitoring for a specific time span. For more information, see section Account Settings—Schedules. Schedules are generally inherited. New schedules are added to schedules that you already set up, so all schedules are active at the same time.

Maintenance Window. Specify if you want to set up a one-time maintenance window. During a maintenance window, the selected object and all child objects are not monitored.

They are in a Paused status instead. Choose between:. To terminate an active maintenance window before the defined end date, change the time entry in Maintenance Ends to a date in the past. Maintenance Begins. This field is only visible if you enable Set up a one-time maintenance window above.

Use the date time picker to enter the start date and time of the maintenance window. Maintenance Ends. Use the date time picker to enter the end date and time of the maintenance window. Dependency Type. Define a dependency type. You can use dependencies to pause monitoring for an object depending on the status of a different object.

You can choose from:. To test your dependencies, select Simulate Error Status from the context menu of an object that other objects depend on. A few seconds later, all dependent objects are paused.

You can check all dependencies under Devices Dependencies in the main menu bar. This field is only visible if you enable Select a sensor above.

Click the Search button and use the object selector to select a sensor on which the current object will depend. Dependency Delay Sec. Define a time span in seconds for dependency delay. After the master sensor for this dependency comes back to an Up status, monitoring of the dependent objects is additionally delayed by the defined time span.

This can prevent false alarms, for example, after a server restart, by giving systems more time for all services to start up. Enter an integer value. This setting is not available if you set this sensor to Use parent or to be the Master sensor for parent.

In this case, define delays in the parent device settings or in its parent group settings. Access Rights. User Group Access. Define the user groups that have access to the object. You see a table with user groups and group access rights.

The table contains all user groups in your setup. For each user group, you can choose from the following group access rights:. To automatically set all child objects to inherit this object's access rights, enable the Revert children's access rights to inherited option.

For more details on access rights, see section Access Rights Management. Channel Unit Configuration. Channel Unit Types. For each type of channel, define the unit in which data is displayed. If defined on probe, group, or device level, these settings can be inherited to all sensors underneath. You can set units for the following channel types if available :. Custom channel types can be set on sensor level only. Knowledge Base: Which.

Edit Channels. To change display settings, spike filtering, and limits, switch to the sensor's Overview tab and click the gear icon of a specific channel. For detailed information, see section Sensor Channel Settings.

Notification Triggers. Click the Notification Triggers tab to change notification triggers. For detailed information, see section Sensor Notification Triggers Settings.

For more general information about settings, see section Object Settings. Sensor Settings Overview. For information about sensor settings, see the following sections:. Since , we offer monitoring solutions for businesses across all industries and all sizes, from SMB to large enterprises. We believe monitoring plays a vital part in reducing humankind's consumption of resources. Our products help our customers optimize their IT, OT and IoT infrastructures, and reduce their energy consumption or emissions — for our future and our environment.

Customer Login. Search Search. Previous Next. Windows Scheduled Task Sensor. Sensor Settings Task Name You see a list with the names of all items that you can monitor. Setting Description Sensor Name Enter a meaningful name to identify the sensor.

Parent Tags Shows tags that this sensor inherits from its parent device, group, and probe. Tags Enter one or more tags. Priority Select a priority for the sensor. Sensor Settings Ignore Status Codes Define exit codes of the monitored task which are not processed by the sensor. Name Shows the name of the task that this sensor monitors. If Value Changes Define what the sensor does when the sensor value changes: Ignore changes default : Take no action on change.

Trigger 'change' notification : Send an internal message indicating that the sensor value has changed. In combination with a change trigger , you can use this mechanism to trigger a notification whenever the sensor value changes.

Write sensor result to disk file name: Result of Sensor [ID]. File names: Result of Sensor [ID]. This is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites these files with each scanning interval. Why aren't scheduled tasks appearing for a monitored node? Make sure that Windows Scheduled Task Monitor is enabled for the node. If you received a "Network path not found" message, check that node credentials have permission to access the Task Scheduler files location.

Make sure the node is Up. See also Out-of-the-box scheduled task alert triggers a false alert. SolarWinds uses cookies on its websites to make your online experience easier and better. By using our website, you consent to our use of cookies. For more information on cookies, see our Cookie Policy. Toggle navigation. See What's Offered. View all Classes. Open Sessions and Popular Classes. View Suggested Paths. See All Videos. Popular Videos.

Learn More.