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Page title

For most spaces, this page must be titled Space announcements.

For spaces with localized content, this page must be titled Space announcements l10n.

Purpose

Provide an announcement banner on every page of your space.

Location

Move this page outside of your home branch.

Guidelines

Announcement Support for this product will end on November 3, 2025. We recommend that you use PATROL for Linux, PATROL for AIX, or PATROL for Solaris to monitor operating systems.

Determining the Number of Zombie Processes running


This task describes how to view the total number of processes in zombie state on the system at the present time or in the last couple of hours. By default, BMC PATROL identifies a zombie process as an ended process whose entry remains in the process table but is not assigned to a user or kernel space and does not consume any other resources. You can filter the zombie processes from process monitoring. However, you cannot set an option to alert when the zombie process's matching criteria is found. Processes in this state are also referred to as defunct processes.

To View the Number of Processes now in Zombie Mode

Access the PROCESS application InfoBox as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes

BMC PATROL displays the PROCESS InfoBox, which provides the number of processes in a zombie state in the Number of Zombie Processes field.

PROCESS InfoBox

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To View the Number of Processes Recently in Zombie Mode

  1. Access the PROCESS application class so that you can view its parameters.
  2. Open the PROCNoZombies parameter.
     BMC PATROL displays a graph that shows the number of zombie processes that occurred over the last couple of hours.

Related topics

Process-PROCESS

Process-Presence-PROCPRES

Unix-Processes-PROCCONT

 

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