This site is 100% Micro$oft-free -- no Micro$oft products of any kind were used to create or serve these pages.

tkloads - A tool for remotely monitoring UNIX Systems

tkloads is a tcl/tk based script which grafically displays the load on multiple remote UNIX systems.

Sometimes there is the need to keep track of the load, and to be able to either quickly grab an idle CPU to run a process, or to look what's causing an excessive load.

The script displays the machine loads in 3 minute intervals, by querying the rup-deamon "rupd" on each remote machine - all remote machines should run "rupd". You should make sure the you have "xterm" and "top" in your PATH.

If you click on the machine name

  • left mouse click : updates load
  • middle mouse click: starts a remote xterm
  • right mouse click : starts a remote top

You need to have an .rhosts file set up for remote xterms and top display

You need to set an environment variable TKLOADS_MACHINES to a space separated list of machine names and number of CPUs. e.g.:

    setenv TKLOADS_MACHINES "serverA 4 serverB 2 mymachine 1"
 

Download tkloads

Don't forget to
  • chmod a+x tkloads
  • setenv TKLOADS_MACHINES

Maintainer: Tilo Sloboda unixNOSPAM@unixgods.org
last update: 23 October 2001