Process control utilities

Command-line utilities are available to help you manage the process agents, processes, and services in a process control system.

The following table lists these command-line utilities.

Table 1. Process control command-line utilities
Utility	Description
nco_pa_status	This utility retrieves and displays the status of services and processes that are being controlled by the process agent. If a process is defined as unmanaged (`Managed = False`) in the process agent configuration file (nco_pa.conf), nco_pa_status can return a random status when it checks the process. For example, the returned status might be `DEAD` when the process is running correctly. This is not an error and it happens because the process agent starts unmanaged processes but does not monitor them.
nco_pa_start	This utility starts a service or process that is located anywhere in the configuration.
nco_pa_stop	This utility stops a service or process that is located anywhere in the configuration.
nco_pa_shutdown	This utility shuts down a process agent.
nco_pa_addentry	This utility adds a service or process entry while a process agent is running.