It is useful to note that the procmap window orders processes alphabetically by host name first, then by executable name on each host. The User column indicates the login name under which a process is running. The Pid is the UNIX process identifier in the operating system's process table. Heartbeat indicates the length of time since the process last registered with procmap. Processes are configured to register once every minute.
Uptime shows the length of time since the process was last restarted.
The role of the auto-restarter is to make sure that all of the required processes are running and registering a regular heartbeat with the process mapper. Any process which is missing from the procmap or which has not registered a recent heartbeat is killed and restarted by the auto-restarter. The auto-restarter makes a full check of the process list every minute. Any process which gets restarted is entered into a log file which is summarized nightly and mailed to the operator for daily maintenance checks . Cron The UNIX cron facility is a daemon used for executing commands on a timed schedule.