Pid               (Sun MTP Servers)

DESCRIPTION
"Pid" is the system process id of a Sun MTP Server process. 


VALUES
"Pid" is a non-zero integer value assigned to a process by the operating 
system. None of the Server processes should have a "Pid" of zero.


INTERPRETATION
The Sun MTP Servers Screen shows all processes configured for a Sun MTP system, 
active or not. A non-zero value for "Pid" indicates that a Server's process
exists (although it may be idle). A zero value for "Pid" indicates a potential
problem. Please contact Sun support personnel.


CONCLUSIONS
When a Sun MTP region runs in a UNIX environment, use this value to 'grep' 
through 'ps' output to get specific information on a process. For example, to 
see the information on the Trin Server, type the following (on System V):

$ ps -ef | grep unikixtrin

An example of using this field is to restart a renegade TX Server. If you notice
that the "Memory" datapoint for a particular TX Server grows without bounds, the
process may have entered an errant loop. You can easily remove of the process
from the system by using the "Pid" field. On UNIX systems, use the kill command: 

$ kill -9 pid

where pid is the value of the "Pid" field. On Windows NT systems, the task 
manager can be used to kill the process id. Sun MTP will fork a new TX Server to 
take the place of the victim. This sort of activity is a temporary measure to 
get the system under control until application programmers can solve the problem
and you can reinitiate the system with a (hopefully) fixed TX Server.
