Guardian User's Guide

Monitoring Hardware Components
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Checking the Status of Pathway
Checking the Status of Pathway
This subsection explains how to check the status of the Pathway transaction processing
applications. Pathway is a group of related software tools that enables businesses to
develop, install, and manage online transaction processing applications. Several
Pathway environments can exist for a system. As a system operator, you might check
the status of Pathway in your routine system monitoring. For specific information about
Pathway, see the NonStop TS/MP System Management Manual.
To learn the names of the Pathway processes running on your system, enter:
> STATUS *, PROG $*.*.PATHMON
To access PATHCOM to communicate with one of the PATHMON processes, enter:
> PATHCOM $pathmon-process-name
At the PATHCOM prompt, enter:
= STATUS PATHWAY
To check the state of the PATHMON process within the Pathway environment, enter:
= STATUS PATHMON
PATHMON States
The status of the PATHMON process can be either STARTING or RUNNING:
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STARTING indicates that a cold or cool start has not finished.
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RUNNING indicates that a cold or cool start has finished.
The other elements of the STATUS PATHMON display are as follows:
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CPUS shows the number of the primary and backup processors in which the
PATHMON process is running. If the backup PATHMON process is not running,
the second number will be blank.
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PATHCTL, LOG1, and LOG2 contain information about the PATHMON control
file and the logging files.
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REQNUM contains the PATHMON internal identifiers of application requesters
that are currently running in this environment.
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The FILE column identifies the type of requester.
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The WAIT column explains if the process is waiting, which can be caused by one of
the following conditions:
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IO: the request is waiting for an I/O operation to finish.
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LOCK: the request is waiting for an object that has been locked by another
requester.
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PROG-DONE: the request is waiting for a RUN PROGRAM to finish.