In order to monitor a process, you must create
a monitor.
Before you begin
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."
About this task
To create a process monitor, complete the following steps:
- In the IBM Systems
Director Web interface navigation
area, click Navigate Resources.
- Navigate to the resource from which you want to create
a process monitor.
- Right-click the resource and select . The Process Monitors
launched task is displayed.
- In the Process Monitors window,
type the executable file name of the application process that you
want to monitor.
- Select any combination of the Start, Stop,
and Fail check boxes, to specify which action
or actions you want to monitor.
- If you selected the Fail check box,
type a timeout setting. This setting is the number of seconds
that the process monitor will wait for the application process to
start before generating a fail event.
- To monitor additional processes
with the same Process Monitors subtask, click .
- Repeat steps 4 through 7 until
you have listed the executable file names of all the processes that
you want to monitor.
- Click to save the process monitor.
- In the Save As window, type a name
to identify the process monitor; then, click OK.
Results
The new process monitor is displayed as a subtask under the
Process Monitors task in
IBM Systems
Director Web interface.