pmfd(1M)

NAME | Synopsis | Description | Attributes | See Also | Diagnostics | Notes

NAME

rpc.pmfd, pmfd – RPC-based process monitor server

Synopsis

/usr/cluster/lib/sc/rpc.pmfd

Description

The rpc.pmfd daemon is the Sun RPC server for serving the process monitor facility that is used by Sun Cluster software. This daemon initially starts when the system comes up.

The rpc.pmfd daemon must be started as superuser so commands that are queued to be monitored can be run as the user that submitted them.

You can run this command in the global zone or in a non-global zone. The command affects only the global or non-global zone in which you issue the command.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWscu
Interface Stability	Evolving

See Also

truss(1)attributes(5)

Diagnostics

Diagnostic messages are normally logged to the console.

Notes

To avoid collisions with other controlling processes, the truss command does not allow tracing a process that it detects as being controlled by another process by way of the /proc interface. Because the rpc.pmfd daemon prior to the Solaris 10 OS uses the /proc interface to monitor processes and their descendants, those processes that are submitted to the rpc.pmfd daemon by way of the pmfadm command cannot be traced or debugged. As of the Solaris 10 OS release, this restriction no longer applies.

Sun Cluster 3.2  Last Revised 23 May 2006

NAME | Synopsis | Description | Attributes | See Also | Diagnostics | Notes