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Process:getProcess

Method

Purpose

This method (on AIX) 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.

If no arguments are given, the entire table is returned.

Type

Synchronous, IMPACT_INFO.

Arguments

 

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

Returns

 

Name	Type	Description
Process Name	String	Process name
ID Process	Integer	The process ID of the process (this datum required in order to kill the process). Table is indexed on ID Process.
Parent Process ID	Integer	Parent process ID of the current process
User Name	String	Effective user name of the process
Status	String	Status of process
Virtual KBytes	Integer	The size of virtual address space (kilobytes)
CPU Time	Integer	CPU usage (user time + system time, milliseconds)
% CPU	Integer	The ratio of CPU time used to CPU time available computed for the lifetime of the process
% Memory	Integer	The ratio of process’s resident set size to the physical memory on the machine
Command	String	The actual command, along with its argument

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