Concept Guide

process monitor
process monitor log|restart|
Description
The process monitor validates the integrity of processes every 120 seconds. If a process does not respond
during three consecutive 120-second timeout intervals, that process is flagged as nonresponsive and the
process monitor will create a log message, restart the process or reboot the controller
Syntax
Parameter Description
log
The process monitor creates a log message when a process fails to responding
properly. This is the default behavior for the process monitor
restart
This parameter enables strict behavior for runtime processes.
When you enable this option, the process monitor will restart processes that fail to
responding properly.
Usage Guidelines
The CLI command process monitor log enables logging for process monitoring. By default, whenever a
process does not update a required file or send a heartbeat pulse within the required time limit, the process
monitor records a critical log message, but does not restart any process. If you want the configure watchdog to
restart a process once it fails to respond, use the CLI command process monitor restart.
Example
The following changes the default process monitor behavior, so the process monitor restarts nonresponsive
processes.
(host) #process monitor restart
Related Commands
The show process monitor statistics command displays the current status of all the processes running
under the process monitor watchdog. A partial example of the output of this command is shown below:
host) (config) #show process monitor statistics
Process Monitor Statistics
--------------------------
Name State Restarts Timeout Value Timeout
Chances
---- ----- -------- ------------- ---------------
/mswitch/bin/arci-cli-helper PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
/mswitch/bin/fpcli PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
/mswitch/bin/packet_filter PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
/mswitch/bin/certmgr PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
/mswitch/bin/dbstart PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
/mswitch/bin/cryptoPOST PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
/mswitch/bin/sbConsoled PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
/mswitch/bin/pubsub PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
/mswitch/bin/cfgm PROCESS_RUNNING 0 120 3
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