CO-Fmon.exe program

The CO-Fmon.exe program, normally residing in the installationDirectory\wintools directory, executes as a single persistent background process, and as a standard Windows service. You can see the program in the Windows Service Manager with the name BMC Defender FIM Adapter. You can start and stop the program from that location using the net command with the short name correlog File. The program is normally configured in the Windows Service Manager to start automatically when the host platform boots. You can verify that the program is running by finding the CO-Fmon.exe program name in the Windows Task Manager.

The destination address for all messages is configured in the CO-Fmon.cnf file that is in the same directory as the CO-Fmon.exe program. This file must exist in that location and be read whenever the CO-Fmon.exe program starts. A detailed explanation of this configuration file, including all directives that is included in the file, is provided in the next section.

The CO-Fmon.exe program creates the CO-Fmon.log file in the same directory as the executable program and the configuration file. This log file can contain any errors and can contain syslog messages (if so configured). The file is overwritten each time the server starts and typically has just a very few lines. This log file does not need any maintenance.