DCmonitor by pizzaking

[IronBits]

http://www.bluetentacle.co.uk/dcmonitor/

I am using it now to monitor all my clients at once, without having to VNC to each one, and/or using the KVM switch to run thru them one at a time.

Works Great with the new PhaseII Client!

Also works with many other projects!!!
ymmv

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[IronBits]

Bump - this thing works great for monitoring alot of windows based clients for many projects - works great with DF Phase II :)

[Angus]

Yup! Works great as IB says. :hifi:

It took me a moment or two to figure out how to access non-shared folders on the remote boxes, but after that it the rest was easy. \\Farm1\c$\distribfold1 was the trick.

But - I'm wondering what the client is doing when it shows 'Stopped' for a bit then comes back to 'Running' status? :confused: If the client is truly not running, it shows 'Unknown'.

[cygnussphere]

Originally posted by IronBits
Bump - this thing works great for monitoring alot of windows based clients for many projects - works great with DF Phase II :)

I second this bump nice proggie :thumbs:

http://myweb.cableone.net/eventhorizon/smilies/bumpit.gif


hmmm Im running out of room in my sig...:idea:

[Ferret]

I'll give this a try as I'm currently pressing buttons on my KVM about half a dozen times per day to just make sure the two processors on my server are still folding. :D

[rsbriggs]

Seems to work well for my three little boxes (AND saves wear and tear on the KVM switch...) But..... I use a minimize sound on my desktop and I really wish it didn't play minimize/maximize sounds three times each time you minimize/maximize it.

Didn't know the "non-shared folder" trick, so I simply went to the other boxes and shared the DF folders. Is this bad? :confused:


Hehehe - I see the whip smiley ended up in the list of availables......

[alpha]

Originally posted by Angus
But - I'm wondering what the client is doing when it shows 'Stopped' for a bit then comes back to 'Running' status? :confused: If the client is truly not running, it shows 'Unknown'.

That seems to be when the client gets 'stuck' on a structure. I would assume DCMonitor thinks the client has stopped because the details of progress.txt aren't changing (i.e. the structures complete/remaining in current generation remains constant while structure is 'stuck').

[IronBits]

Changes for v0.71 of DCMonitor:

- Updated the column sorting options so that they work with the new DF client.
- DCMonitor can now be resized for those people with more than 15 boxes .
- Column sizes are now saved when DCMonitor is closed.
- Added an option to return the columns to their default widths.
- Rewrote the minimise to tray code so that it works cleaner now.

You can get it from the usual place:

http://www.bluetentacle.co.uk/dcmonitor/

Cheers

pk

[rsbriggs]

Ahh - much better after those couple of fixes. :thumbs: