Active Process is shown as Bad/Alive

Peter · Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 20

Hi,
i want to log the activity of some processes. But if i configure the test for a process i am only be able to see process-status as Bad or Alive.
Hostmonitor should be able to log a test as "active process", too.
Regards.

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12795 Location: USA

Sorry, I am not quite sure what is "active process"?
HostMonitor retrieves list of all processes and mark test as "Bad" if number of instances of the specified process is out of the defined range.

Regards
Alex

Peter · Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 20

Sorry because of my late answer (holiday).

With active process i mean a process which is generated and killed every hour by an application. It does not have bad or alive status.
To inform and to log the activity of this process i need another status.
Regards
Peter

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12795 Location: USA

Peter,
Sorry, but I still do not understand your problem.
HostMonitor control specified process on specified system and mark status of the test as "Bad" if number of instances of the specified process is out of the defined range. "Bad" and "Ok" are not status of the process, its status of the test. Its up to you how to configure test. If you need to monitor number of instances of some process, you can use Reply field, in this field HostMonitor displays number of instances. Log files contain this field, also you can include Reply field into reports.

So, what the problem? May be process that you want to monitor starts for short time and quits in several minutes or secons? In this case its hard to synchronize test execution and time when you program executed. But its problem with synchronization, not problem with status. So, I still do not understand anything. Could you please explain?

Regards
Alex

Peter · Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 20

Hi Alex,

"Bad" and "Ok" are not status of the process, its status of the test.

Right, but if publishing the Teststatus by a parameter, the status of the test is OK (if no process active) and BAD (if process is active; i configured it so).
I would like to show the status "active", if an instance of this process is found without a "if Number of process, then-script"

King regards,
Peter

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12795 Location: USA

So, you just do not like standard statuses "Bad" and "Ok"? And you want to change "Bad" to "No active" and change "Ok" to "Active"? Am I right?

Regards
Alex

Peter · Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 20

And you want to change "Bad" to "No active" and change "Ok" to "Active"? Am I right?

I like "Bad" and "OK"

But for pure logging it is not important to know, if Bad or Ok. Some of my processes sometimes only are active, and thats enough information for publishing.
To evaluate the logging information if this process was active or not, Bad and OK-status are not the right publishing information.
But this topic does not narrow your great Tool.
King regards
Peter

KS-Soft · Joined: 03 Apr 2002 Posts: 12795 Location: USA

Peter,

>But for pure logging it is not important to >know, if Bad or Ok. Some of my processes >sometimes only are active, and thats enough >information for publishing.

So, if process will be active, HostMonitor will mark test as "Ok". If process terminates, HostMonitor will mark test as "Bad". Or with different settings HostMonitor can mark test as "Bad" when process is active, and change status to "Ok" when process terminates.

>To evaluate the logging information if this >process was active or not, Bad and OK->status are not the right publishing >information.

Why? I am realy sorry but I still do not understand problem

>But this topic does not narrow your great >Tool.

Thank you

Regards
Alex