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Processes View
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.. figure:: ../../../_static/administration/processesView.png
    :alt: Processes view
    :name: Processes view
    :align: center
    :figWidth: 100%

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Overview
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The Processes view presents a tabular view of the processes in your
distributed system. The table includes these columns:

* **Host** - The host upon which the process represented by this row is
  running. Click on this cell to open a view focused on the host.

* **Process** - The process itself. Click on this cell to open a detailed
  view of the process.

* **Process ID** - The ID of the process. This information is specific to
  the platform; some embedded platforms have different ways to express
  this ID and so may not match exactly what is reported here.

* **State** - The state of the process. This information is only
  available for RTI service instances.

* **Kind** - The process kind. This information is only
  available for RTI service instances.

* **Version** - The version of |CONNEXT| used by the process.

* **Domain(s)** - A list of the DDS domains to which the process is connected.

* **Health** - The health state of the process. Clicking on this cell opens
  the Health View, which has a more detailed explanation of the reasons for
  the processes' health state.

* **Uptime** - The total amount of time that this process has been running.
  *This information is currently only available if an instance of *Routing Service*
  is running on the host and has monitoring enabled*.

* **CPU (%)** - The CPU consumed by this process (in percentage). 
  *This information is currently only available if an instance of *Routing Service*
  is running on the host and has monitoring enabled*.

* **Physical Memory** - The amount of physical memory consumed by this process. 
  *This information is currently only available if an instance of *Routing Service*
  is running on the host and has monitoring enabled*.

* **Total Memory** - The total amount of memory consumed by this process. 
  *This information is currently only available if an instance of
  *Routing Service* is running on the host and has monitoring enabled*.

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Toolbar
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.. |ICON_EXPORT_TO_FILE| image:: ../../../_static/administration/exportToFile.png

This view's toolbar contains a button |ICON_EXPORT_TO_FILE| to export the
table to a file. This file will be a comma-separated-value file. 
Additionally, you can find buttons to minimize and maximize the view.