Creating Resource Types With Multiple Independent Process Trees

Agent Builder can create resource types for applications that have more than one independent process tree. These process trees are independent in the sense that PMF monitors and starts them individually. PMF starts each process tree with its own tag.

Agent Builder enables you to create resource types with multiple independent process trees only if the generated source code that you specify is C or GDS. You cannot use Agent Builder to create these resource types for the Korn shell. To create these resource types for the Korn shell, you must write the code by hand.

In the case of a base application with multiple independent process trees, you cannot specify a single command line to start the application. Rather, you must create a text file, with each line specifying the full path to a command to start one of the application's process trees. This file must not contain any blank lines. You specify this text file in the Start Command text field on the Configure screen.

Ensuring that this file does not have execute permissions enables Agent Builder to distinguish this file, whose purpose is to start multiple process trees from a simple executable script that contains multiple commands. If this text file is given execute permissions, the resources come up with no problems or errors on a cluster, but all the commands are started under one PMF tag, precluding the possibility of monitoring and restarting the process trees individually by PMF.