This topic describes the Process Monitors window in IBM® Director.
Introduction
Use
the Process Monitors window to perform these tasks:
- Specify the name of an application for which you want to activate a process
monitor.
- Select start, stop, and fail-to-start event thresholds for the specified
application.
Menubar
- File >
- Open
- Displays the Open window in which you can select an existing process monitor
task to edit.
- Save
- When the Process Management task has been applied directly to a system,
immediately replaces the monitor and event-generation settings on the target
system with the settings currently defined in this window.
If a user-defined
process task is invoked without being applied to a system, selecting this
option saves the current settings for the task displayed in the Tasks pane.
- Save As
- Allows you to provide a name for a task. This field is displayed when
a user-defined process task is invoked without being applied to a system.
Take one of these actions:
- Enter a new name for the process monitor task.
- Select an existing name for the process monitor task, which overwrites
the settings of the task name you select with the settings currently defined
in this dialog.
- Create Task
- Creates a task. This option is displayed when the Process Management task
has been applied directly to a system. Take one of these actions:
- Select an existing user-defined process task to overwrite in the Tasks
pane of IBM Director Console.
- Enter the name of a new process task that is saved as a child entry of Process
Monitors in the Tasks pane.
- Edit >
- New Row
- Adds a blank row to the end of the list of entries. Use the new row to
specify another application name and select event thresholds.
- Delete Row
- Removes the currently selected row of information from the list.
Fields
- Program Name
- Identifies the name of the application for which you want to activate
a monitor. Note that only the application name is used by monitors; paths
entered are ignored.
- Start
- When selected, generates an event each time the selected application is
started. The severity level of this Start event is Harmless.
- Stop
- Select this criterion to generate an event each time the selected application
stops running. The severity level of this Stop event is Warning.
- Fail
- Select this criterion to generate an event each time an attempt to start
the application fails within the time range specified in Timeout
(Seconds). The severity level of this Fail event is Critical.
- Timeout (Seconds)
- The amount of time, in seconds, that must elapse before a Fail event is
generated waiting for the application to start.