Process control components

Process agents
Process agents are programs that are installed on each host to manage processes in a process control system. Any participating host must have a process agent and an associated configuration file installed.

Processes
Processes are programs that are run by a process agent on the same workstation, within a process control system. Processes must be defined in a service, for ease of management.

Services
Within a process control system, processes must be grouped together in services. You can group related processes in a service to make them easier to manage.

Process control utilities
Command-line utilities are available to help you manage the process agents, processes, and services in a process control system.