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.
Note: This task requires the IBM® Systems
Director Launched Tasks program. This
program is installed automatically the first time you use a task that
requires it. For information about the IBM Systems
Director Launched Tasks program, see "Starting
the IBM Systems
Director Launched Tasks program."
Menu bar
- 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 command definition 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 command definition 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 command definition to
overwrite in the Tasks pane of IBM Systems
Director Web interface.
- Enter the name of a new command definition 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.