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Determining the number of processes running

This task describes how to view the total number of processes running on the system at the present time or in the last couple of hours.

To view the total number of processes now running

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

PATROL displays the PROCESS InfoBox, which provides the total number of processes running on the system at the present time in the Number of Processes field.

To view the total number of processes recently running

  1. Access the PROCESS application class so that you can view its parameters.
  2. Open the PROCNumProcs parameter.

PATROL displays a graph that shows the total number of processes running on the system over the last couple of hours.

Related topics

Process-PROCESS

Process-Presence-PROCPRES

Unix-Processes-PROCCONT

 

 

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BMC PATROL for UNIX and Linux 9.13