JP1 Version 12 for UNIX Systems JP1/Performance Management - Agent Option for Platform Description, User's Guide and Reference

7.2.9 Notes on collecting information about the operating status of processes

If an asterisk (*) is specified as a monitoring condition for the process operation and non-operation information collection functionality, the functionality sometimes improperly detects command lines in the system that contain an asterisk. This is because the asterisk in the monitoring condition acts like a wildcard.