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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Filtering capabilities on the names of processes
You can distinguish process names that are longer than 768 characters, so that situations can be defined on the relevant part of the name. You can also use this enhancement for filtering processes of any length.
To improve filtering on the processes, a Process Filter attribute has been added to the UNIX Process attribute group. Its content, a regular expression, is sent to the agent as a filter object and is intended to only act on the Process Command (Unicode) attribute. For example, the agent uses the value provided in the Process Filter attribute to match the process name, and then fills the Process Command (Unicode) attribute.
In a Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspace view, you see only the processes whose names match the specified regular expression. The Process Command (Unicode) column is filled with the matching patterns separated by blanks, as defined in the regular expression. The Process Filter column is filled with the regular expression that matches it. Situations can be defined mixing the Process Command (Unicode) column and other conditions (for example, CPU usage).
To use this enhancement, create queries and situations on the UNIX Process attribute group containing the Process Filter attribute and define a regular expression in it. More rows and more regular expressions are allowed. Use the query in a workspace view or distribute the situation to the target managed systems.
There are a few predefined regular expressions for the Process Filter attribute when you use it in the query or situation editor:
- Java processes (.*java.*)
- IBM_Java_processes_entry_method_only_(.*java.*(com.ibm.*))
- System Admin installed processes_(/usr.*)
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