The Application Processes Layer

This layer depicts the states of the different processes that must be executing for the application service to be available. The Processes test (see Figure 1) tracks various statistics pertaining to the different application processes. Details of this test are provided below.

Figure 1 : The tests mapped to the Application Processes layer of a Solaris server

The Processes test and the procedure to auto-configure the processes to be monitored have been discussed elaborately in The Application Processes Layer section .