
$CMON System Program
The CMON program is not an HP-supplied process, however, no system should run
without a $CMON process. When a $CMON process is present on the system mes-
sages are sent to the $CMON process to verify logon requests and process start
requests.
If the $CMON message does not block the action or the wait for $CMON does
not exceed the timeout parameter, processing continues. If the $CMON process
returns a message blocking the action, the action is denied and an error is returned to
whomever originated the action.
The $CMON process can perform many functions for both security reasons and
performance reasons, such as:
Control the CPU and ...