Process Monitoring Module Version 2.0 (Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User's Guide)

Sun Management Center 3.6.1 User's Guide

Process Monitoring Module Version 2.0

The following section describes the Process Monitoring module parameters and their property descriptions. This module requires you to add rows for the data property tables. For more information, see To Add a Row to a Data Property Table.

When a matching process is found, the %CPU and a count of the number of processes that match is displayed. If you want to change the module parameters, you can edit all the parameters except for the entry name by accessing the pop-up menu. See To Access a Pop-Up Menu for more information.

Process Statistics Table

The following table provides a brief description of the properties for Process Statistics.

Note –

When you add a row to the process statistics table, you must provide the information in the first five rows in the following table. See To Add a Row to a Data Property Table for more information.

Table C–137 Process Statistics Properties


Property	Description
Entry Name	Name of the process statistics table entry (must be a unique name).
Name Pattern	Pattern to match the name of the binary for the process that you want to monitor.
Argv Pattern	Pattern to match the arguments of the command that executes the process.
User Specification	User name that is executing the process.
Entry Description	Description of the entry (required field).
Process Command	Command used to initiate the process, if applicable.
Process Count	Number of processes currently running that match the patterns.
% System CPU Usage	Percentage CPU used by the system processes. This value is a time-weighted average that is taken at different time intervals. Do not confuse this percentage with the value that might result after you enter the UNIX `ps` command.
% User CPU Usage	Percentage CPU used by the user processes.
Virtual Size	Total size of the processes in Kbytes.
Resident Set Size	Resident size of the processes in Kbytes.
Monitoring State	Toggle between on (row is enabled) and off (row is disabled). When the row is disabled, all the entries are displayed as 0 (zero).

Microstate Information Table

The following table provides a brief description of the properties for Microstate Information.

Table C–138 Microstate Information Properties


Property	Description
Entry Name	Name of the entry (must be a unique name).
CPU wait time	Percentage of time for CPU wait.
Text page fault time	Percentage of time for text page faults.
Data page fault time	Percentage of time for data page faults.
Major page faults	Number of major page faults per second (text and data faults).
Characters in I/O	Number of characters read and written per second.
Involuntary context switches	Number of involuntary context switches per second.
CPU time for reaped children	Percentage of CPU time used by child processes that have detached from their parent processes.
User lock time	Percentage of time spent for user locks.
System trap time	Percentage of time spent for system traps.
Total swaps	Percentage of time spent on swaps.
Entry Description	Description of the entry (required field).
Executable code Rule	Rule that applies to executable code.
File access rule	Rule that applies to file access.

Note –

You might see extremely high percentages on a per-CPU basis if the following facts are true:

A particular process has a number of n threads that are waiting to become active.
User Lock Time is 100% times the number of n threads.