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Process names in Solaris

I am new to the APM tool. I am using this on both Windows and Solaris Unix systems. On the Windows it is easy to monitor a specific process such as outlook.exe. I have checked the documentation and do not see how to properly set up a monitor on the Sun box for a Cobol application. For example when I use ps -ef the process shows as: /opt/acucorp/720/bin/runcbl -d -c config1 BOE0200. I have another process I am monitoring that shows in ps -ef as: acushare. THis one is being monitored with no problem. On the one that is a long string I have entered into APM just as in, with double quotes around it, with since quotes around in and it is never seen as a process by APM.

How do you monitor process strings such as "/opt/acucorp/720/bin/runcbl -d -c config1 BOE0200" in APM?

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josh.clark

Your need to enter the process name that the SNMP agent is returning in the host resource MIB. For your example, this is probably "runcbl"

jdarnell

There are basically 40 processes running under common process of runcbl. I am trying to monitor just one of them that is the BOE0200 programming running under the runcbl executable. I just tried runcbl BOE0200 and that not work. I then tried just runcbl and that did not work.

jdarnell

Josh, actually the runcbl by itself did work, but it returned all the processes running under that executable. When you stated in your reply "Your need to enter the process name that the SNMP agent is returning in the host resource MIB", is there a way for me to see in Solaris what is actually being returned in the resource?

josh.clark

You could use one of the Toolset Tools to walk that mib, but it isn't going to tell you much. The process monitor watches for a spceific process. Your process in this case is a generic one that gets used many times. There isn't a way to specify a specific process other than by process name.

If you could run it under a different process name, that would work. Can you create a symbolic link to runcbl and use that?