Process Monitors window

This topic describes the Process Monitors window in IBM® Director.

Introduction

Use the Process Monitors window to perform these tasks:
  • Specify the name of an application for which you want to activate a process monitor.
  • Select start, stop, and fail-to-start event thresholds for the specified application.

Menubar

File >
Open
Displays the Open window 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 in this window.

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
Allows you to 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 in this dialog.
Create Task
Creates a task. This option is displayed when the Process Management 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 Director Console.
  • Enter the name of a new process task that is saved as a child entry of Process Monitors in the Tasks pane.
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 entered are ignored.
Start
When selected, generates an event each time the selected application is started. The severity level of this Start event is Harmless.
Stop
Select this criterion to generate an event each time the selected application stops running. The severity level of this Stop event is Warning.
Fail
Select this criterion to generate 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)
The amount of time, in seconds, that must elapse before a Fail event is generated waiting for the application to start.
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