This topic describes how to configure PATROL to monitor processes. By default, PATROL does not monitor any processes. With new implementation of process monitoring the name of a process instance does not depend on a process ID.
The name of the new process instance depends on the label specified by the user. All the matching processes on a managed node are now monitored as a single instance and the instance parameters display consolidated values for all the matching processes.
When configuring monitoring for a specific process, you can use the methods shown in the following table.
Process monitoring options
Method | When to use |
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Manual process monitoring | You want to select or specify the processes to monitor and you want to customize how PATROL monitors them. |
Automatic process monitoring | You want to monitor a process only if it exceeds a specified CPU utilization percentage. |
When configuring the monitoring of processes, you can use regular expressions to specify the process name only. For more information, see:
For more information about the various configuration tasks, see: