Process Management page: Applications page
Use the Applications page on the Process Management page to view
information for processes, such as program applications, with which you can
then interact. Most process management tasks are performed on applications.
Each row of information on the applications page represents an application.
Menu bar
- File >
- Close
- Closes the window.
- Actions >
- Execute Command
- Opens a page where you can specify a command and run the command on the
selected system.
- Close Application
- Stops the selected application on the selected system.
- Set Priority >
- Sets the priority of the selected process. Choose from the following options:
- Real-Time
- High
- High Normal
- Normal
- Low-Normal
- Low
Note: This option is not available for Linux® systems.
- Kill Process
- Linux only:
Opens a page where you can end a selected process.
- Terminate Signal
- Linux only:
Opens a page where you can terminate a selected process.
- Monitors >
- Process Monitors
- Displays the Process Monitors page, which you can use to define a monitor
or an event threshold for a specified process.
- Help >
- Process Management
- Displays help information for the Process Management page
and its pages.
- Index
- Displays the IBM® Systems
Director Help
Index.
Fields
- Name
- Identifies the name and location of the application on the system, except
for UNIX®,
in which only the name of the application is displayed. The application names
listed can be selected to specify the application for which you want to start
a process monitor by right-clicking an application and selecting Add
To Monitors.
- Process ID
- Identifies the operating system's internal identification value for this
process.
- User
- Identifies the logon ID of the user who started the process.
- Thread Count
- Identifies the number of program threads that this process is using.
- Priority
- Identifies the relative importance of the process with regard to receiving
attention from the processor.
- Memory Usage
- Identifies the current memory usage, in kilobytes (K), for the selected
system.
- CPU Time
- Identifies the processor time used by an application.
- Monitored
- An indicator of a process monitor's activation.
Actions
- Add To Monitors
- Adds a monitor of the selected application to the Process Monitors page.
You can display and view the monitor entry by selecting in the menu bar.
- Close Application
- Closes or stops the selected application. Not all applications can be
closed using this option.
CAUTION:
Closing an application can cause
a loss of data and halt the operating system.
- Set Priority >
- Sets the priority of the selected process. Choose from the following options:
- Real-Time
- High
- High Normal
- Normal
- Low-Normal
- Low
Note: This option is not available for Linux systems.
- Copy
- Copies the selected line to the clip board.
- Copy Cell
- Copies the selected cell to the clip board.
- Sort >
- Ascending
- Sorts the selected column in ascending alphanumeric order.
- Descending
- Sorts the selected column in descending alphanumeric order.
- Hide Column
- Removes the selected column from the view.
- Show Column
- Restores a hidden column to view. The restored column is inserted to the
left of the current column.