Process Monitors page

Use the Process Monitors page to specify the name of an application for which you want to activate a process monitor. This page is also used to start, stop, or fail-to-start event thresholds for the specified application.

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File >
Open
Displays the Open page 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 on this page.

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
Opens a page where you can 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 on this page.
Create Task
Creates a task. This option is displayed when the Process Monitors 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® Systems Director Web interface.
  • Enter the name of a new process task that is saved as a child entry of Process Monitors in the Tasks pane.
Close
Closes the window.
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 that are entered are ignored.
Start
Generates an event each time the selected application is started. The severity level of this start event is harmless.
Stop
Generates an event each time the selected application stops running. The severity level of this stop event is warning.
Fail
Generates 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)
Specifies the amount of time, in seconds, that must elapse while waiting for the application to start before a fail event is generated.

Actions

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.
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.

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