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This plugin uses shell commands (ps) to determine if processes are running on the machine running Indigo Server and obtain some statistics about them. Processes may be launched or quit by turning the associated Indigo device on or off.

Plugin Configuration

• Update frequency
  How often to check whether applications are running.

• Push stats frequency
  How often to updtate the statistics in the device states. Statistics will change every time for running applications, which can mean more communication with Indigo. Reduce this setting if you start seeing "ServerCommunication" errors in the log.

• Divide %CPU by cores
  By default, Macs report percent cpu of a single core. Check the box to make the plugin report a a true percentage of total capacity.

• Enable debugging
  If checked, extensive debug information will be written to the log.

Devices

Application

This is for standard applications with a .app extension (likely hidden) that usually reside in the /Applications folder.

Configuration

• Application name
  The name of the application (exclude the .app extension).

• Use Applications folder
  Check if the application is in the /Applications folder.

• Directory path
  For applications not in the /Applications folder, specify the full path to the directory containing the application.

• Open fresh
  Check to launch the application 'fresh', without restoring previous windows and documents.

• Open in background
  Do not bring application to the front after launching.

• Use force quit
  Force the application to close even if there are unsaved changes.

• Use special process name
  Occaisionally applications will have a different name reported by the ps command than they have in the Finder. If so, check this box.

• Process name
  If the applications has a different name in ps, list it here.

States

• Process Status
  The current status of the process. Values are 'Idle', 'Running', 'Stopped', 'Waiting', 'Zombie', or 'Off'.

• Process ID
  The process id.

• Last Start
  Timestamp of the last time the process was started.

• Elapsed Seconds
  Elapsed running time as an integer in seconds.

• Elapsed Time
  Elapsed running time as a string in format DD-HH:SS.

• Percent CPU
  The percent of CPU capacity the process is using as a float.

• Percent Memory
  The percent of memory the process is using as a float.

Helper

This is for helper applications without a .app extension, not in the /Applications folder, and probably faceless.

Configuration

• Helper name
  The name of the name (including extension if any) of the helper application.

• Directory path
  The full path to the directory containing the helper application.

States

Same as above.

Daemon

Uses launchctl command to add and remove jobs to launchd. If the daemon was launched by another process, quitting may fail.

Configuration

• Daemon process name
  The name of the name (including extension if any) of the daemon.

• Directory path
  The full path to the directory containing the daemon.

• Start command arguments
  Optional arguments used when launching daemon.

States

Same as above.

System Load

This device reports the total CPU and Memory utilization of the Indigo Server machine.

Configuration

No configuration, but you must 'SAVE' the cofiguration dialog!

States

• Percent CPU
  The percent of CPU capacity as a float.

• Percent Memory
  The percent of memory as a float.

• Display State
  String combining percent CPU and percent memory.