Setting up an Alert for Oracle Java Usage in ControlUp Edge DX

A user needed help setting up an alert for when Oracle Java is used on their workstations. They noticed that Edge DX could only see the process name but not the company info, so someone suggested using a script to obtain more data and put it into a custom index for a second alert. The user expressed thanks for the suggestion and said they would give it a try.

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Hello. My company is looking for a way to alert whenever anyone runs Oracle Java on their workstation. We spent a lot of time getting Oracle out of our environment to not have to pay their outrageous licensing, and everyone who needs Java should be running some flavor of open source JDK. I know Edge DX sees the processes running on people’s workstations, and in theory I could create an alert when a process runs, but unfortunately Oracle Java and open source Java all use the same process executable names (ex. javaw.exe). Is there any way where DX can also see the header information of the process so that we can also see the company, for example? Thanks

Maybe you can grab the PID, and then run a script that obtains more data based of the PID and put the results in a custom index and use a second alert to look at that index?

The script would be pretty straightforward (this is in PowerShell, without the SIP DATA additions you will need to feed it into an index, but you get the idea)

Thanks. Ill try and give this a shot.

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