The services.unManaged Table

The services.unManaged table is used by the ncp_ctrl process to start and stop unmanaged processes. This table is also used by other Network Manager processes to instruct the ncp_ctrl process to start their subprocesses.

The ncp_disco process, for example, instructs the ncp_ctrl process to start the finders, helpers and agents by sending inserts into the services.unManaged table of the ncp_ctrl process. Inserting or deleting records from the table causes the corresponding processes to be started or stopped.

The table below describes the services.unManaged database table.

Table 1. services.unManaged Database Table Schema
Column name	Constraints	Data type	Description
argList		List of type Text	Specifies a list of arguments sent to the service process.
dependency		Long integer	Specifies the process ID of the parent that the service is dependent upon. Examine the content of this field to determine whether this unmanaged process is dependent or independent. If this field contains a process ID value then this means that this is a dependent unmanaged process. A dependent unmanaged process is stopped by ncp_ctrl if the parent process dies. When this field is set then it contains the PID of the parent process. An example of dependent unmanaged processes are the discovery agents started by the parent Discovery engine, ncp_disco, process. If this field contains a NULL value then this means that this is an independent unmanaged process. An independent unmanaged process continues to run if the parent process dies.
endSignal		Integer	The signal to be used to end the process. The default value is 9.
hostName		Text	Specifies the system on which the service is running.
logFile		Text	Specifies the name of the file in which output is logged.
processId		Long integer	Specifies the service process ID.
serviceId	UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL	Integer	Specifies the unique ID of the service.
serviceName	NOT NULL	Text	Specifies the name of the service.
servicePath		Text	Specifies the full path to the service process. If the value is set to NULL, then this default path is used: `NCHOME/precision/platform/$PLATFORM/bin`.
serviceState	Externally defined serviceState data type	Integer	Specifies an integer which reflects the current operational state of the service.