Online 

AIX and Solaris: Starts the process with optional arguments. 

Starts the process with optional arguments. 

HP-UX and Linux: Starts a process in the background with optional arguments and priority in the specified user context. 

Offline 

Terminates the process with a SIGTERM. If the process does not exit, a SIGKILL is sent. 

Monitor 

Checks to see if the process is running by scanning the process table for the name of the executable pathname and argument list. 

Clean 

Terminates all ongoing resource actions and takes the resource offline, forcibly when necessary.