Don't know about the V8 systems, but for 6 and 7 there was a pair of programs, 'remd' and 'remv'which essentially provide a command line interface to the system monitor. It isn't particularly fun, but scripts can be built around these to extract counter and status information. These seem to have been installed by the FoxWatch software install, but I've never seen any specific statement as to who has license to use it and who does not. Also, it was available in Quick Fixes for various platforms/versions. Regards, William C Ricker FeedForward, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steinbrecher, Nick Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 10:20 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] System Counter Monitoring List, I am looking for suggestions on how to monitor all those system counters that exist under the PERF tab on the System Management display. There are a lot of counters there. More than you can routinely check on. I was wondering if anyone had any tools or way to access these values and then generate some kind of notification when one of them went out of wack. We had a problem last year that was warned of by an increase in MAC resets but nobody looked at this until the problem was upon us. Knowing that this was increasing would have given us time to deal with it before it rose to the level that plant operators saw a problem. > Nick Steinbrecher > Process Control Engineer > (908)-474-3565 > email E.STEINBRECHER@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave