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If you set up the Controller to monitor your applications, you should always start and stop the applications from within the Controller. If you stop an application outside the Controller, you must also restart it from outside the Controller. If the Controller detects a problem with an application (the application goes to Impaired status), you should troubleshoot the problem and restart the application outside the Controller. The Controller will continue monitoring and when it detects that the application is back up, it will put the application back into Active status.

Built-In Variables

Application Monitor Trigger built-in variables are provided to pass information about an application being monitored into the task or tasks being launched by the trigger. You can pass the information into the launched tasks by including the variables in a text field in the task definition.

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