Useful Utilities for AIQ Administration
Recommended guidance
The followingUse utilities areto optionalsupport AIQ installation, troubleshooting, and administration. Utilities should help validate ports, certificates, disk space, network access, logs, browser dependencies, and service health without becoming undocumented production changes.
Examples of useful utility checks
- Port listeners and conflicts for
helpingAIQmanageservices,yourTestAppvanceNodes,IQ installMonitor Running ProcessesProcess Explorer provides an in-depthdatabases, anduser-friendlyproxies. - Disk
viewusage,ofmemory,processesCPU, andisprocess status on AIQ hosts. - Certificate expiration, trust chains, and TLS connectivity.
- Browser installation and version checks on execution nodes.
- Network connectivity to repositories, applications under test, integrations, and package sources.
Operational rules
- Use read-only checks first when diagnosing a
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Task Manager, all processes appear, however using Process Explorer, processes can be sorted hierarchically,owners andalsoreviewreveal additional details when you place your mouse over any item. If you are not running Appvance as a service, this creates a clear view of the primary process related to Appvance as well any child processes, also called the process tree. Right-click any process to kill the process much like with Task Manager, however, you can also choose to kill child processes or the process tree.history.
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