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Execute commands on AIX server

VibhashMishra — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:25:55 GMT

Hi Team,

Is there a way to execute a command on the AIX server to capture the output of the following? The jbase_agent in the T24 core banking system is managing hundreds of processes, and these processes are creating files within a specific folder. To track this, counting the active processes or the number of files in that folder would be helpful.

The command in question is:

ps -ef | grep jbase_agent | grep -v start | wc -l

This will allow us to monitor the number of processes associated with jbase_agent. Alternatively, we could count the files in the designated folder to get a similar count of connections.

Re: Execute commands on AIX server

RohitBisht — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:19:09 GMT

Hi @VibhashMishra , I believe you can get the count of process with these metrics. Try these and compare with the actual count on the server.
https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/shortlink/built-in-metrics#processes

For number of files in the folder you can use below extension but these extensions don't run on AIX.
Filesystem monitoring monitoring & observability | Dynatrace Hub

Alternate solution can be you run a shell script -> log the output to a file -> monitor that log file using Dynatrace.

Hope this helps,

Re: Execute commands on AIX server

AntonPineiro — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:00:04 GMT

Hi,

You can use @RohitBisht ways and Metric scripting integration .

Best regards