Project Activation

The first step in making a project active is to associate its container with a host. The second step is to set the resource boundaries, namely, to assign the minimum CPU reservation and the memory cap for the project. The project must be associated with a host that can support these resource boundaries. An active project can also be referred to as being deployed, in the sense that the project has been pushed out and resides on a host.

When creating an application-based project with the New Project Wizard, a match expression can be provided that identifies the processes associated with the application. All processes that correspond to the match expression are then automatically moved under this container. On project activation, an entry in the /etc/project database is created on the host that the container is associated with. Correspondingly, the matching processes are then moved under the project name for the container. After the processes are moved, all resource utilization data is collected and saved for the project.