If you want the configure watchdog to restart a process once it fails to respond, use the command process monitor restart command. By default, whenever a process does not update a required file or send a heartbeat pulse within the required time limit, the process monitor records a critical log message, but does not restart any process. The CLI command process monitor log enables logging for process monitoring. When you enable this option, the process monitor will restart processes that fail to responding properly. This parameter enables strict behavior for runtime processes. This is the default behavior for the process monitor The process monitor creates a log message when a process fails to responding properly.

If a process does not respond during three consecutive 120-second timeout intervals, that process is flagged as non-responsive and the process monitor will create a log message, restart the process or reboot the managed device. This command validates the integrity of processes every 120 seconds.

Process monitor logging