Site Daemons

Site daemons enable you to control two background processes that run on the host server:

  • The monitor daemon is essential to the operation of the Network Monitor. The Network Monitor depends on the monitor daemon to send instructions to the system engine and to receive information from the engine.

    Therefore, the monitor daemon must be started before you start the Network Monitor.

  • In a UNIX system, the Lock Manager controls the locking and unlocking of files. This prevents files from being accessed by more than one user at a time, thus safeguarding the files from corruption.

    In a UNIX system, therefore, the Lock Manager must also be started before you start the Network Monitor.

Note:  In a Windows system, files are automatically locked and unlocked by the operating system, so there is no requirement for a Lock Manager.

Use the Site Daemons tool to: