Various statuses of the Asm Snapin

For multiple instances:

• Stopped
• Defined

The status Defined signifies that a minimum of one multiple instance is started. This does not imply that this multiple instance is also still running. An ASM client, such as OpenWorldX, itself triggers a multiple instance when to stop. The ASM server has nothing to do with this process.

For unique instances:

• Stopped
• Running
• Unknown

The status Unknown signifies that the ASM server starts a unique instance and the start/stop command that belongs to this instance finished the execution. This occurs if the unique instance runs another command or forks itself to a background process with another process ID. The ASM server can no longer find the process ID of the start/stop command. To prevent the ASM server from showing instances with status Unknown, use commands that continue to run as a foreground process after starting. An example of a process that forks to the background, and therefore, receives the Unknown status after starting, is the LN printer daemon. Do not start this daemon from ${BSE}/etc/rc.start_pdaemon.

At default ASM scans its running processing each 10 seconds. If a process was stopped, without ASM got a stop request, the process is being marked with Unknown status.