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Process:getProcess

Method

Purpose

This method (on HP-UX) returns a process table filtered by the Process Name argument.

Remarks

Test any regular expressions you plan to use in rulebases by first using them interactively to insure they return the desired results.

Type

Synchronous, IMPACT_INFO.

Arguments

 

Name	Type	Description
Process Name	String	Process name. Pattern match with regular expressions. Empty argument returns information for all processes.

Returns

 

Name	Type	Description
Process Name	String	Process name. Table is indexed on ID Process.
ID Process	Integer	The process ID of the process (this datum required in order to kill the process)
Parent Process ID	Integer	Parent process ID of the current process
User Name	String	Effective user name of the process
Virtual KBytes	Integer	The size of virtual address space (kilobytes)
Stack KBytes	Integer	The size of the process’s stack (kilobytes)
% CPU	Integer	The ratio of CPU time used recently to CPU time available in the same period (the meaning of “recently” in this context is unspecified; the CPU time available is determined in an unspecified manner).
Command	String	The command with all its arguments as a string, as with ps -ef. Truncated to 58 characters.
CPU Time	Integer	CPU usage (user time + system time) in milliseconds

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