Process Supervisor
(c)2003 Bitsum Technologies, http://www.Bitsum.com
Authored by Jeremy Collake

Topic: Overview and Documentation Index
 


Process Supervisor is a unique new technology intended to allow for automatic management of running proceses in ways not previously available. Some of the many things Process Supervisor can do are:

  • Automatically restrain processes using up too many CPU cycles until their usage drops. This will allow you to maintain system responsiveness when an application is consuming 100% of the CPU, something that has been a problem for the NT process scheduler since its inception.
  • Have applications default to a specific priority each time they are run. Often times it is desired to always run an application at a priority higher or lower than normal, with Process Supervisor this is made easy.
  • Specify which applications are allowed to run or not allowed to run . With wildcard support and an 'allow' list you can even restrict all applications except for those approved. This is particularly useful for network administrators since they can limit what is allowed to execute on client machines.
  • Perform all these operations on client machines in a network environment since the engine is isolated from the GUI. The engine, ProcessGoverneor, can be installed as a system service or run as a normal application. After installing it on client machines, configuration and log files can be loaded and written to and from a remote path.

Complimenting these capabilities is an easy to use and task manager-like graphical user interface that allows for easy configuration and log/status viewing in addition to manual process manipulation.

The latest version can be checked for by using the 'Check for update' menu option in the GUI or can always be found at http://www.bitsum.com .

Documentation Topics:

  1. Process Supervisor Components
  2. Using the Graphical User Interface (GUI)
  3. Using the Process Governor (engine) Installer
  4. Using the INI Configuration File
  5. Command Line Arguments
  6. Installation in a Network Environment
  7. Licensing

For support please visit Bitsum Technologies on the web at http://www.bitsum.com or email support@bitusm.com . We have a variety of other products for software developers, power users, and network administrators that we invite you to try.