You can use the Add New Process dialog box to add new processes to the list of monitored processes, and to specify process-monitoring options. If you selected an existing process in the Manage List of Monitored Processes dialog box, selected the Add New Process radio button, then clicked OK, the Add New Process dialog box appears.
Item | Description |
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Process Instance Label | Type a name for the monitored process instance icon in this field. You can specify a label of a maximum of 100 characters. |
Monitored Process String | Type the command or unique command string for the process that is being monitored. PATROL monitors all processes that match the string you type in this field. When you enter text in this field, you may end up monitoring multiple processes. For example, if you type vi in this field, PATROL will monitor processes named vi, view, and previous. |
Minimum Count | Use the spinner buttons, or type a value in this field to set the minimum number of process instances that may be running on the local computer or in the host group. |
Maximum Count | Use the spinner buttons, or type a value in this field to set the maximum number of process instances that may be running on the local computer or in the host group. The value in the Maximum Count field must be equal to or greater than the value in the Minimum Count field. |
Acceptable Process Owners | Type the user IDs of all acceptable process owners in this field. Separate multiple user IDs with spaces. |
Use Process Owners for Filtering | Select this check box to filter a monitored process by process owners. Because the process filtering for the processes is based on owners, the owner of the processes is always a subset of the provided owner set. Thereby, the ProcessOwnerCheck parameter is deactivated when the Use Process Owners for Filtering check box is selected. |
Parent Process ID Must Be 1 | From the drop list, select one of the following options: Yes - indicates that the parent process ID (PPID) for the process must be 1. (Processes with a PPID of 1 are owned by init). |
Restart Automatically | From the drop list, select one of the following options: Yes - indicates that the process will be restarted automatically if PATROL detects it has stopped. If you select this option, the PATROL for Linux will attempt to restart the process when it detects that the process instance count has fallen below the specified minimum threshold. The KM uses the value in the Command Execution Attempts field to determine how many times it will try to restart a process. Note:To restart a process automatically, must provide a start command and a command execution account user name and password in the appropriate fields on this dialog box. |
Command Execution Attempts | Type a value in this field to set the number of times the host will attempt to run a Start Process or Stop Process command before it stops trying to run the command. The value that you enter in this field must be a 1 or greater. |
Start Command | Type the command string that will start the process instance. You must specify a command execution user account and password if you want to use the Start command. |
Stop Command | Type the command string that will stop the process instance. You must specify a command execution user account and password if you want to use the Stop command. |
Command Execution User Name | Type the user ID under which the command will be executed. You must specify a command execution user account and password if you want to use the Start and Stop commands. |
Command Execution Password | Type the password for the user ID under which the command will be executed.
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Alert Delay Count | Type a value in this field to set the number of collection intervals that this host will defer an alert while it waits for the process count to be reestablished across the host or group. |
Alert State | From the drop list select a state change for the following parameters when the Action Deferral Count reaches zero and the process count across the range is out of range: Process Count Check (ProcessCountCheck) Process Ownership Check (ProcessOwnerCheck) Parent PID is 1 (ProcessParentPID1) |
Blackout Period | You have the option of setting a blackout period during which you do not want to monitor the selected process. To set the blackout period: |
OK | Click this button to execute the action that you selected in the Actions group box. |
Cancel | Click this button to close the dialog box without saving any of your changes. |