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:
- Start and stop one daemon or both daemons together. See Starting the Site Daemons tool and Stopping the site daemons.
- View the status of daemon operations. See View the Site Daemon status.
- View a log file that contains a record of engine activities. See View the log file of engine events.
- Select an alert configuration file or remove the current one. See Select an alert configuration.