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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1adf0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="03a203c0.jpg" border=0 width="32" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Arial" ><B>Saiga Systems Software</B></FONT><B>      |     </B><A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saiga Systems Software"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ferret"><U>Ferret</U></A>   |   <B>Hitman</B>   |   <A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RA"><U>RA</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Swap"><U>Swap</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trace"><U>Trace</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VDM"><U>VDM</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id61.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Watch"><U>Watch</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cohort"><U>Cohort</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Licensing and pricing information"><U>Licensing and pricing information</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1acf2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="041b4bc0.gif" border=0 width="180" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Hitman is part of the Cohort V3 suite of OpenVMS system management tools.</div> <div> <A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hitman V9"><U>Download V9</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id70.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Licensing and pricing information"><U>License Information</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id49.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Products"><U>Products</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Copyright:</div> <div> Saiga Systems Software Inc.</div> <div> Suite 913,</div> <div> 105 - 150 Crowfoot Cres NW</div> <div> Calgary, AB</div> <div> Canada</div> <div> T3G 3T2</div> <bR> <div> Last Update to this page:</div> <div> March 8, 2001</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1aff0f03.jpg"> <div> <I>Hitman</I></div> <div> <IMG SRC="05d150b0.gif" border=0 width="277" height="267" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> HITMAN is the OpenVMS idle process and event monitor. HITMAN detects various conditions on your OpenVMS system and automatically takes action. You have total control on what actions are to be taken. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Idle Process Management</B></div> <bR> <div> HITMAN is a very flexible idle process management system. With HITMAN you can: </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Specify system-wide idle and warning times</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Specify different idle thresholds by Username, Process name, UIC, Terminal, Server and Rights identifier </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Specify which processes to protect by Username, Process name, UIC, Terminal, Server and Rights identifier </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Specify the action to take when terminating a process (Force Exit, Delete Process or Both) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Customize messages for warning and process termination. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Detect "almost" idle processes with BIO, DIO and CPU thresholds </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Indicate which mode you want HITMAN to operate in (watch, warn, or hit) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Indicate which types of processes HITMAN monitors for idleness (interactive, network, etc) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Specify various modes of operations with DECWindows. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Specify user defined actions to be taken when a user is idle </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Log off any or all users when BACKUP must run whether or not they are idle </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Specify prime and nonprime hours with different configurations for each. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Event Monitoring</B></div> <bR> <div> HITMAN is also a very powerful event monitoring utility. When an event is detected you can send the console a message, mail a user a message and/or submit a batch job to perform any action required. With HITMAN you can: </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Monitor for Runaway processes </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Detect Processes when they stop or start</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Detect when someone runs a specific image </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Monitor for elevated priorities </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Monitor for processes with specific privileges </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Monitor disk space </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Detect device errors </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Detect stopped or stalled queues </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ensure required jobs are in batch queues </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Detect missing processes </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Detect when a node leaves your cluster </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Detect processes in unusual states </div> <bR> <div> Some new features added to Hitman for V8 or V9 are listed below. New features in Version 9.1 and V10 and listed on the <A HREF="id144.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hitman V10 Release Notes"><U>V10 release notes</U></A> page.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The maximum number of processes that HITMAN can monitor has been increased to 2,000. We also have kits built and on-line for larger sites.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">HITMAN has a new audit file (HITMAN_DAT:HITMAN_AUDIT_FILE.node) that contains time and user information. HITMAN will write out to this file every time someone makes a change to the HITMAN parameters. It will also indicate if that change is the creation of a new permanent data file or modification of existing prime or nonprime data.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The maximum number of events has been increased to 512. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The inactivity thresholds (CPU, BIO and DIO) can now be specified for individual images. Many sites have reported situations where images/applications had background usage that caused them to appear to be active. Now HITMAN can be configured to kill these users without changing your default inactivity thresholds. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new process state event has been added. Now HITMAN can report by mail or OPCOM message when <I>n</I> or more processes are in a particular state. HITMAN can, optionally, submit a DCL batch job as well. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">HITMAN/VERSION now gives a multiple line display including the version and some license information. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new image count event has been added. Anytime HITMAN detects <I>n</I> users running a particular program it can be configured to send mail, send OPCOM messages and/or submit an action procedure.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The action procedure for an event can be configured to run more than once. Many users have requested the ability to configure HITMAN events to submit the action procedure either every time HITMAN sees the event true, or for a user defined number of instances.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new utility program has been added that can send a forced exit to a different process. This can be used in conjunction with the user exit routines to issue forced exits to processes from batch jobs before they are stopped.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">All events have a new user parameter which is available in the action procedure as P8. This parameter can be used to pass site/event specific information to the action procedure. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">HITMAN's default working set parameters have been increased to help reduce paging. The new qualifiers /WSDEFAULT, /WSEXTENT and /WSQUOTA can be used to refine them further. The values can also be changed from within the menu. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The process id (PID) is now passed to the action procedure for present process, priority and privilege events. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new resequence events function has been added. Use either /RESEQUENCE or the menu option under modify events, to resequence events from 2 on and fill in any gaps in the current event numbers. Event number 1 is the default event. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The event mass change facility can now perform mass changes to any event field. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new monitor node event has been added. When set up it will send mail, send OPCOM messages and/or submit an action procedure every time node <I>x</I> notices that node <I>y</I> is no longer in the cluster. With V9 this event was also extended to include remote nodes that are not part of the cluster.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new repeating event has been added. This event can be configured to submit an action procedure every <I>x </I>minutes. This is useful for resetting license counts or submitting jobs that should be run periodically throughout the day. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new HITMAN/DUMP=EVENT command has been added. It creates a report to show all the events and their current status (whether or not HITMAN has seen this event as having occurred and been acted on). </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The HITMAN detached process now sets itself so that it cannot be swapped out. On heavily used systems HITMAN was occasionally getting swapped out and this caused significant delays in data collection. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Users can now limit the number of processes that HITMAN will terminate in a single data collection pass. This can be used at sites where a large number of users become idle at roughly the same time to help spread out the process termination overhead. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">With V8 any valid device specifier that can be used with a GETDVI call can have a device error event configured for it.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A new HITMAN/DUMP=SUMMARY has been added. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The new /command qualifier can be used to create a DCL command procedure that will recreate your parameter file. This makes distributing a parameter file to multiple nodes that aren’t clustered easy and possible by e-mail. It also makes it possible to use a normal text editor to make significant changes to your parameter file by</div> <div>      updating the command procedure and then recreating your parameter file.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The new /summary qualifier can be used to generate a summary of any HITMAN log file. The summary breaks down the contents of the log file by event type and, where appropriate, username.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">V7.x of OpenVMS includes a new DecWindows user interface. Some code changes have been made to support pausing or killing these sessions.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">It is now possible to use Hitman to monitor remote nodes to ensure they are available. Both the absent process and present process events can now be configured with a remote node name. Adding an absent process event on a system critical process, such as SWAPPER, for a remote node will cause Hitman to take action anytime that node goes down. There is some setup involved for these events on the remote node; the monitor remote nodes chapter of the user manual documents how to take advantage of this new feature.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>