Using Standard Commands and Tools
This section describes standard commands and system instrumentation that can be used for monitoring any application. Some Unix commands are available that can help you to determine the status of your application. Commands to report the overall status of your system are described in Chapter 4.
In addition to these commands, you may want to check the system log file, /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log, for error messages if your system is experiencing problems. Messages written to this log file include information on the module experiencing the problem and the time the event occurred, which can be very valuable when troubleshooting.
ps
The ps command can be used to show the processes running on the system. This can be ...
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