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External Process Manager (CAF Plug-in)

This plug-in (named cfProcessManager) manages external processes such as HM Agent and Alert Collector. The plug-in functionality is similar to CAF, where CAF manages the Client Automation-conformant plug-ins but Process Manager manages external processes that are not CAF plug-ins.

The external processes that cfProcessManager manages support the regular CAF plug-in properties such as Maxinstances, Maxrestarts, Restartifdied, Enabled, and Maxrestarttime. The behavior of these properties is similar to that of CAF plug-ins.

The following additional properties are supported:

Startwithcaf

Defines the process to start when CAF starts.

Default: Do not start with CAF.

Stopwithcaf

Defines the process to stop when CAF stops.

Default: Do not stop with CAF.

Commandline

Indicates Command line of the process.

Startcmd

Defines the start command. Default: start.

Stopcmd

Defines the stop command. Default: stop.

Statuscmd

Defines the status command. Default: status.

Note: Restart cfProcessManager when you change the above settings.

A new /EXT option is introduced to work with the CAF start and stop commands.

Caf start /EXT

Starts all plug-ins and the enabled external processes that Process Manager manages.

Caf stop /EXT

Stops all plug-ins and the enabled external processes that Process Manager manages.

The Caf status cfProcessManager command shows the status of the external processes.