Application Process Overview (PD_APS)

Notes

• Information cannot be collected if connection to the monitored host fails.

• Each process indicates a program being executed during collection.

• This record can be used in real-time reports only. If you try to display this record in a historical report, the error KAVJS5001-I occurs.

• Any character in the information to be acquired that is not in the ASCII character set range of 0x20 to 0x7E will be converted to a hash mark (#: 0x23) before it is stored in the Program Name (PROGRAM_NAME), Command Line (COMMAND_LINE), and Virtual Env ID (VIRTUAL_ENV_ID) fields. Note that multi-byte characters are processed in single-byte units during conversion. For example, the multi-byte (full-width) letter is converted as follows:

  Information to be acquired		Information after conversion
  Character encoding	Binary	Binary	Character string
  Shift-JIS	8260	2360	#`
  EUC	A3C1	2323	##
  UTF-8	EFBCA1	232323	###

• The value in the Command Line (COMMAND_LINE) field might end in a space. Therefore, when defining a conditional expression for alarms or specifying the collection of process operation status information, note whether the value ends in a space.

• When the OS of the monitored host is Windows, the value in the Program Name (PROGRAM_NAME) field corresponds to the value displayed in the Image Name column when the Processes tab of Windows Task Manager is clicked.

• When the OS of the monitored host is Windows, the entire value in the Command Line (COMMAND_LINE) field might be enclosed in double quotation marks ("). When using the value in the Command Line (COMMAND_LINE) field to define a conditional expression for alarm, you must replace the double quotation marks (") with single-byte asterisks (*). For details about how to define a conditional expression for alarms, see the chapter that describes operation monitoring using an alarm in the JP1/Performance Management User's Guide.

• When the OS of the monitored host is a UNIX environment, the values in the Program Name (PROGRAM_NAME) and Command Line (COMMAND_LINE) fields correspond to the values displayed in the COMMAND column when the following ps command is executed with C specified in the LANG environment variable:

  • In AIX: ps -A -X -o comm,args

  • In HP-UX: UNIX95=1 ps -A -o comm,args

  • In Linux: ps -e -o comm,args

  • In Solaris: ps -e -o fname,args

  The first COMMAND column is stored in the Program Name (PROGRAM_NAME) field and the second COMMAND column is stored in the Command Line (COMMAND_LINE) field. Note that the value displayed in COMMAND column differs depending on the OS.

• When the OS of the monitored host is a UNIX environment, the value in the Terminal (TERMINAL) field corresponds to the value displayed in the TTY (TT) column when the ps command is executed. The displayed value differs depending on the OS.

• When the OS of the monitored host is a UNIX environment, the Virtual Env ID (VIRTUAL_ENV_ID) field displays a value only if the OS of the monitored host is AIX6.1 or later or Solaris10 or later. Nothing is displayed for other OSs.

• When the OS of the monitored host is a UNIX environment, n/a is displayed in the Terminal (TERMINAL) field for zombie processes.

• When the OS of the monitored host is the Workload Partition (WPAR) environment of AIX V6.1 or later, the Virtual Env ID (VIRTUAL_ENV_ID) field displays Global or global.

• Information is not collected if TargetType is set to icmp in the monitoring target settings.