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AVEVA Enterprise SCADA

Process monitoring

  • Last UpdatedApr 24, 2025
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The following is published for topics related to process monitoring. Each process that has been checked into the process monitor for the specified service will publish its configuration parameters and status. The topic string uniquely identifies the process by name, process ID, and a unique ID separated by underscores:

<system>.<service>.processmonitor.<computer>.<name_processId_uniqueId>.<processItem>

Where <processItem> can be any of the options in the table below:

Process Item

Description

status

The following are published to identify the state of the process:

  • DEAD

  • ALIVE

  • INACTIVE

  • KILLME

  • FIRSTTIME

pid

The Windows process ID of the process.

processdescription

The description of the process.

critical

Used to indicate whether a process should be considered Critical or Non-critical.

  • When Critical processes fail, the associated service is in a failure state and will failover/shutdown at the first appropriate moment (for example, when a Standby server is available for the given service).

  • When Non-Critical processes fail, the associated service is placed in a warning state.

healthstate

The overall heathstate of the process, which will be one of the following:

  • good

  • bad

checkininterval

The interval that the process will check-in to the process monitor.

firstcheckintime

The time the process first checked-in to the process monitor.

lastcheckintime

The last time the process checked-in to the process monitor.

lastrestarttime

The last time that the process restarted.

restartcapable

Used to indicate whether a process has been configured to restart in case of a failure.

restartcommand

The command used to restart the process.

restarttargs

The arguments used with the restart command to restart the process.

shutdowncommand

The command used to shutdown the process.

shutdownargs

The arguments used with the shutdown command to shut down the process.

shutdownpriority

The priority given to shut down the process.

shutdowntimeout

The timeout used for the shutdown command.

shutdownwithservice

Indicates whether the process will be shut down with its associated service.

shuttingdown

Indicates whether the process is currently shutting down.

standby

Indicates whether the check-in interval should be ignored for the process.

debugging

Indicates whether debugging has been enabled for the process.

handlecount

The total number of handles for the process.

processHandleCriticalLimit

The critical handle limit for the process.

processHandleWarningLimit

The warning handle limit for the process.