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Process and Service Monitoring Overview

The SystemEDGE agent lets you dynamically monitor specific attributes of important processes, services, and applications that are running on the underlying system. You use the Process Monitor table to specify the process, attribute, threshold value, interval, severity, object information, and other values. The SystemEDGE agent automatically monitors the defined process and sends a trap to the management system if the condition you specified is met.

The SystemEDGE agent can maintain and update a state value for any process monitor you specify and use object class, instance, and attribute values to aggregate the status of an object with multiple monitors defined.

The agent can also run commands on the managed system to perform management functions to correct the cause of the threshold breach immediately.

For information about monitoring process groups, see the chapter “Process Group Monitoring.”