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Title
Purpose of Foglight commands shown on the top processes -
Description
There are some commands that are found on the top processes in the server and associated with Foglight on the DB side(as given below):
/usr/bin/find /proc -maxdepth 2 -regex ^/proc/[0-9]*/stat$ -exec /bin/cat {} ;bash -c /usr/bin/env LC_ALL=C/usr/bin/find /proc -maxdepth 2 -regex '^/proc/[0-9]*/stat$' -exec /bin/cat '{}' \;;:What is the purpose of these commands? -
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Resolution
These commands are related to the Infrastructure HostAgent to collect per-process metrics./usr/bin/find /proc -maxdepth 2 -regex ^/proc/[0-9]*/stat$ -exec /bin/cat {} ;This means to find files in "/proc" with no more than 2 depth in the directory tree using a regex search with this expression "/proc/[0-9]*/stat$" and then send the output to the cat command. "LC_ALL=C" means to set the environment variable to ANSI C locale.There is nothing unusual about any of these commands they are all standard built-in on UNIX systems.The agent uses them to collect system information from the /proc filesystem.Detailed Explanation:The first command is a plain old "find" UNIX command used for finding files, you can find further information about it by typing"man find" on any UNIX like system.The output of the find is input into the "cat" command. For more information type "man cat" on the UNIX system.The third command is the "env" also another standard UNIX command to display the system environment variables.