Regarding the, "problem" of perhaps wishing to only collect a subset of
the monitor records for, "MONWRITE" / post-processing activities while still needing a fuller set of records for realtime monitoring, it is really a trivial exercise to write a PIPE that collects MONITOR records ( a la MONWRITE) and, of course, it would be equally trivial to code a filter into that pipe to drop the records that were only of, "real time" interes t. While I completely understand that new folks on the block may have other priorities I'm always bemused when I see folk struggling with the vanilla data collection mechanisms for accounting, monitoring and the such when it's so easy use PIPE to roll a customised collector that fits your exact needs. (Nowadays, the vanilla tools are, "sufficient unto my needs" - but this has not always been the case and, of course, Melinda's Plumbing Papers contain discussion regarding the collection of accounting data - most of which reads straight across into the monitor data collection context.) Jeff
