How to kill particular hanging process

[mac_h8r1]

My office has 12 terminal servers in a mini cloud. They are running Server 2003. There is a particular HP driver which gets loaded for some users' printers. It loads msiexec, which hangs. It doesn't bring the server down or anything (4 cores available so it just shows 24-25%), but it stops any other printers from being loaded by other users. When we see it, we kill it and subsequent printers load just fine. However, with 12 servers and 150-180 or so users connecting and disconnecting, it's impossible to keep an eye on each server for this little bugger.

What I'd like is a daemon/process monitor that would specifically look at msiexec and if it is at >50% CPU usage for more than 10 seconds, kill it.

I started poking at PSAPI, but it's a bit above my head.

Any thoughts?

[computron9000]

I used an auto-process killer once to stop a virus from loading a big exe every time it was killed so I could wipe the thing out, but triggering based on CPU % and duration will probably require something custom.

I found this on Google, but I have never used it myself:

4- Taskkill batch file/Command Line

There’s a Windows command called Taskkill which is used to terminate processes. Simply create a shortcut with the following command:

taskkill.exe /f /fi “status eq not responding”

You can also download this shortcut from the following location and use it from wherever you want.

Task Kill Shortcut (77.0 KiB, 2,428 hits)

Here's the MS Docs.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... x?mfr=true

The question is whether the "not responding" would = 10 seconds @ 50% criteria, or something similar. No experience with this myself, maybe someone else does.

[Ryu Connor]

WSRM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Sy ... ce_Manager

[mackintire]

Process Lasso, might help you.