HP-UX Workload Manager User's Guide

Understanding how PRM manages resources
Management of applications
Appendix F 457
However, the next record uses a wildcard in the directory name and is
not valid:
apps = PRM_SYS : “/opt/wl?/bin/wlmd”; #INVALID
NOTE Be sure to quote strings that include wildcard characters.
To assign all the applications in a directory to a workload group, create
an application record similar to the following, with the file name
specified only by an asterisk (*):
apps = GroupS : “/opt/special_apps/bin/*”;
File names are expanded to their complete names when a PRM
configuration is loaded by WLM. Explicit application records take
precedence over application records that use wildcards. If an application
without an explicit record is matched by several records that use pattern
matching, the record closest to the beginning of the configuration file is
used.
NOTE Beginning with WLM A.03.01, you can use wildcards in both the file
name and the alternate name in a single application record.
Pattern matching for renamed application processes
Alternate names specified in application records can also contain pattern
matching notation as described in regexp(5).
NOTE Use pattern matching only when it is not practical to list all possible
alternate names.
Many complex applications, such as database applications, may assign
unique names to new processes or rename themselves while running. For
example, some database applications rename processes based on the
database instance, as shown in this list of processes associated with a
payroll database instance: