Using process control to manage processes and external procedures

The Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus process control system performs two primary tasks. It manages local and remote processes, and runs external procedures that are specified in automations.

You can use process control to simplify the management of Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus components such as ObjectServers, probes, and gateways. You can install process agents on each host and configure them to manage processes. The configured process agents cooperate automatically and understand their own configuration. They start processes and can keep those processes running. You can define processes that are dependent on other processes, and processes that have timed threshold dependencies. If a managed host is restarted, the process agent can be configured to restart local components automatically.

The process control system includes a set of command-line utilities that provide an interface to process management. You can configure and manage process control either from the command line or by using Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator.