Process Controls dialog box options

Right-click a process to open the context menu. Selecting Control > Full to open the Process Controls dialog box.

This table lists the dialog box options:
Option Description
start Initiates the process by starting all the threads in the selected process.
stop Shuts down the process by stopping all the threads in the selected process.
start with hold Starts the threads in the process, with the outbound data on hold.
start with sticky hold Starts the threads in the process with the last hold status.
restart Restarts the process. When restarting a process, the GUI can still be operated. The command line output is appended to the Command and Engine Output pane, where you can see the results. When restarting a process, the thread status icon on the GUI changes from green to red to green again.
hold Places a hold on all outbound data queues for all protocol threads in the process.
release Releases held messages, so they can continue processing for all protocol threads in the process.
hold reply Holds transmission of all thread reply messages of the selected process until released.
release reply Releases hold on all or a specified number of reply messages.
reload Reloads updated Tcl procedures.
purge caches Removes the configuration caches. Use this option after making a change to an existing configuration. This is not designed to be used for the creation of new threads, processes, routes, and so on.
watch output Shows engine output as it happens.
browse output Opens the log file of engine output.
engine log configuration Opens the Engine Log Configuration dialog box. Click List to select the engine output alias. This applies an Engine Output (EO) alias, configured in the Engine Output Configurator, to the threads in the process.
reindex Loads Tcl procedures that are created after the engine began running.
cycle output Causes the current engine log (.log) and error (.err) files to close and be renamed with an .old extension, and then opens new logs.
status Opens the Status Report dialog box, which provides statistical information on the threads within the process.
reset statistics Resets statistics and counts for a site’s process or thread. This calls the hcimsiutil engine command.

Before using this option, there is the potential to produce unreliable counts. The memory is not corrupted when this option is used. The engine and Network Monitor both lock the shared memory for any write/clear.