VISMON(9.1) VISMON(9.1)
NAME
vismon, sysmon, vwhois - system statistics and mail
notification
SYNOPSIS
vismon [ -n ] [ -m ] [ system ... ]
sysmon [ -n ] [ -m ] [ system ... ]
vwhois person
DESCRIPTION
Vismon monitors use of one or more Unix systems. It displays
time of day, announcements, and CPU usage statistics.
CPU usage is reported as a numerical load average (average
number of runnable processes) and its change in the last
minute, and a bar graph showing, left-to-right, the propor-
tion of CPU time spent in: default-priority user processes,
low priority (nice) processes, system kernel, stream I/O,
and idle time.
Arrival of mail or communications via wall(8) or write(1) is
announced. Mail announcements include an icon of the
sender. Communications appear in a shell (sh(1)) layer
superimposed on vismon's layer. This layer may be used for
reply.
The options are:
-n Update the bar graph every n seconds. (n=5 by
default.)
-m Do not monitor CPU usage on other systems.
Button 2 selectively toggles the monitoring of other sys-
tems. The list of systems is obtained from one of the fol-
lowing: a file named in the VISMON enviroment variable, or
Sysmon is the same as vismon without icons.
Vwhois causes a dummy mail announcement from person to
appear in vismon layers.
FILES
terminal program
remote monitoring program
responder for remote monitoring
There's more to system performance than meets the eye.