Running the JADE Monitor as a Background Process

The read-only JADE Monitor background application, which you can set up to start automatically when a node starts, gathers and records information that can be replayed and assessed later (for example, to forward to JADE Support for problem analysis and resolution if your JADE licence includes support).

You can start the JADE Monitor background application by:

Using the predefined application (that is, ServerApplication<application-number>=JadeMonitorSchema, JadeMonitorBackground) in the [JadeServer] section of the JADE initialization file on the server node to start the background application when the server node starts up
Selecting the Start Monitor Background Application command from the File menu in the GUI JADE Monitor
From the command line; for example:
```
jade.exe path=s:\jade\system schema=JadeMonitorSchema app=JadeMonitorBackground ini=s:\jade\system\supportdirectives.ini
```
The JADE initialization file specifies the directives file to run against (for example, if you want to run multiple JADE Monitor background applications with different directives files concurrently, you could have a separate JADE initialization file for each directives file).

You can run multiple JADE Monitor background applications concurrently; for example, to record different sets of data for your JADE system.

The JADE Monitor background application does nothing if a directives file containing the statistics to be recorded has not yet been saved to the path and file specified in the DirectivesFile parameter in the [JadeMonitorBackground] section of the JADE initialization file (that is, if the directives file is empty, it does not exist, or it is not specified, the background monitor application is launched but does nothing). For details, see the JADE Initialization File Reference.