Engine Command

The Engine Command activity allows you to retrieve statistics and information about process definitions, process instances, and activities for the application and the appnode that is executing the command. This activity also lets you perform job maintenance, such as suspending and resuming the process instances.

Some commands require memory and processor overhead for gathering statistics for retrieving information on the current state of the process. Because of the performance implications, certain instrumentation is disabled by default.

General

The General tab has the following fields.

Field Description
Name The name to be displayed as label of the activity in the process definition.
Command To Execute The command to execute.
Process Definition Name Certain commands accept a process definition name. This field allows you to specify the process definition name that applies to the selected command. This field only appears when the one of the following commands is selected in the Command to Execute field:
Note: If the Process Definition name is not defined in either the General tab or in the Input field, the command is executed for all processes in the application.

Description

Provide a short description of the activity here.

Input

The input for the activity is the following.

Field Description
Name The input for this activity varies depending upon the command selected in the Command to Execute field on the Configuration tab. For more information about the input for each command, see Commands.

Output

The output for the activity is the following.

Field Description
Name The output for this activity varies depending upon the command selected in the Command to Execute field on the Configuration tab. For more information about the input for each command, see Commands.