Process Management

Use the Process Management task to manage individual processes on managed systems. Specifically, you can start, stop, and monitor processes and set up process monitors to generate events whenever applications change state. You can issue commands on managed systems also.

Icon Process
Management icon
Supported IBM® Director objects Level-2 managed systems and devices
Supported operating systems

All operating systems supported by IBM Director. For detailed operating-system support information, see the IBM Director information center at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Availability Part of the standard IBM Director installation.
Required hardware or hardware limitations
  • No required hardware.
  • Cannot use this task on platforms or BladeCenter™ chassis.
  • (SNMP devices only) Can view processes on SNMP devices, but cannot affect the processes.
  • (SNMP printers only) Not supported.
Required software None
Required protocols None
Required device drivers None
Mass Configuration support No
Scheduler support Yes
Files associated with this task None
Events associated with this task Director→Director Agent→Process Monitors

For detailed events information, see the IBM Director information center on the Web at publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/eserver/v1r2/topic/diricinfo/fqm0_main.html.

Related tasks
Applying a process monitor
Creating a process monitor
Removing all process monitors
Removing an individual process monitor
Viewing process monitors
Stopping an application
Viewing processes and services
Working with i5/OS processes and services
Working with Windows processes and services
Creating a process task
Running a process task
Restricting anonymous command execution
Related reference
Process Management window
Process Monitors window
Process Task window

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