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Process Group Monitoring Overview

The SystemEDGE agent lets you dynamically monitor groups of processes running on the underlying system. You use the Process Group Monitor table to specify the process group, regular expression, interval, and severity, and the agent uses that information to monitor the group of processes that match the regular expression.

The SystemEDGE agent monitors process groups to determine what processes exist in each group and whether the group membership changes. If components of an application start or fail, or if members leave a group or are added to a group, the SystemEDGE agent can automatically notify a management system with a trap.

The agent also populates read-only columns of the Process Group Monitor table with combined metric values for the process group. You can create self monitor entries to monitor these attributes based on defined thresholds.

Note: For information about monitoring individual processes and Windows services, see the chapter “Process and Service Monitoring.”