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• Probes — The number of individual probes running on a Satellite.
Field Value
Critical Maximum Probe Count
Warning Maximum Probe Count
Table C-68. RHN Satellite Server::Probe Count settings
C.10.7. RHN Satellite Server::Process Counts
The RHN Satellite Server::Process Counts probe monitors the number of processes on a Satellite and
collects the following metrics:
• Blocked — The number of processes that have been switched to the waiting queue and waiting
state.
• Child — The number of processes spawned by another process already running on the machine.
• Defunct — The number of processes that have terminated (either because they have been killed by
a signal or have called exit()) and whose parent processes have not yet received notification of
their termination by executing (some form of) the wait() system call.
• Stopped — The number of processes that have been stopped before their executions could be com-
pleted.
• Swapped — The number of processes that have been written to disk, generally due to a severe
memory shortfall.
Field Value
Critical Maximum Blocked Processes
Warning Maximum Blocked Processes
Critical Maximum Child Processes
Warning Maximum Child Processes
Critical Maximum Defunct Processes
Warning Maximum Defunct Processes
Critical Maximum Stopped Processes
Warning Maximum Stopped Processes
Critical Maximum Swapped Processes
Warning Maximum Swapped Processes
Table C-69. RHN Satellite Server::Process Counts settings
C.10.8. RHN Satellite Server::Processes
The RHN Satellite Server::Processes probe monitors the number of processes on a Satellite and col-
lects the following metric:
