Short: System monitor and enhancer based on a shared library. V1.15 Author: vogt@na.astro.it (Etienne Vogt) Uploader: vogt@na.astro.it (Etienne Vogt) Type: util/moni Replaces: util/moni/Sysmon* INTRODUCTION Sysmon is a system monitoring and enhancing package based on a shared library and Shell based support commands. It requires AmigaOS 2.04 or higher. Installation of Richard Körber's Identify.library (util/libs/Identify.lha on Aminet) is recommanded if you want the Sysmon monitor to be able to identify expansion boards. If your Amiga has a MMU (Memory Management Unit), it is also recommanded, but not required, that you install Thomas Richter's mmu.library, available from Aminet (util/libs/MMULib.lha). Some of the features provided by Sysmon are : - Precise CPU usage timing for all tasks with very low overhead. - System message logging daemon like UNIX syslogd (useful for debugging). - Safe System shutdown script (useful for BBS's and networked machines). - Functions allowing to send/receive systemwide broadcast messages. - New Alert function (the Guru is back) allowing detailed logging. - New system functions related to tasks, including an enhanced and bug fixed task signal exception mechanism. - Executive compatible SysInfo.library to query tasks CPU usage (only cumulated CPU usage is currently implemented). Sysmon has been developped and tested on the following configurations : - A4000T 68060 AGA, 2 Mb Chip 40 Mb Fast, OS 3.5 1 Gb SCSI HD + 9.5 Gb IDE HD - A500 68000 ECS, 1 Mb Chip 1.5 Mb Slow 2 Mb Fast , OS 3.1 20 Mb IDE-XT + 50 Mb SCSI + 115 Mb SCSI HDs - A4000 68040 AGA + CV64/3D (CGfx 3), 2 Mb Chip 16 Mb Fast , OS 3.5 250 Mb IDE + 1 Gb SCSI + 1Gb SCSI HDs - A3000 68030/68882 ECS, 2 Mb Chip 16 Mb Fast , OS 3.5 100 Mb + 2 Gb + 4 Gb SCSI HDs - A500 68040(PP&S) ECS , 1 Mb Chip 2 Mb Fast16 8 Mb Fast32 , OS 2.04 165 Mb SCSI HD - UAE 68020/68881 (Compaq AlphaServer 1000, Tru64 UNIX), 2 Mb Chip 1.5 Mb Slow 8 Mb Fast16 16 Mb Fast32 , OS 3.5 What has not been tested at all is operation on PPC accelerator boards (I don't have one). The library itself completely ignores the PPC at present but there is always the possibility that some of the patches made to exec will be incompatible with the PPC software. Note that the PowerUp PPC kernel is already considered 'unsupported' as it is not compatible with Thomas Richter's mmu.library (which will be used more extensively in future versions of Sysmon). Don't blame me or Thomas about this, we're not responsible for the lack of information about the PowerUp kernel internals. On the other hand, any information about the behaviour of this software with the WarpUp PPC kernel installed will be welcome. This software is intended for experienced users. In particular, there are no GUI tools available yet; so if you are a mouse-maniac user that don't like typing Shell commands or editing ASCII configuration files, I'm afraid that this software is not for you ;-) . CHANGES V1.15b - SetTrapVectors crashed on the 68000 due to bad CPU check code. V1.15 First official release of Sysmon V1, revision number not increased since the library is the same than in 1.15 beta. - Timer now also uses THOR's 64/32 integer division routine. - ShowSys now displays the Workbench release number in its banner rather then the KickStart one, this will distinguish disk only releases like 3.5 (V44) or 2.1 (V38). - Sysmon monitor got some additional polish in the show memory command. - Added ExcptTest.c example code to the src directory. V1.15 beta - The automatic ColdReboot() caching broke on some configurations. It is now a configuration option activated with the new CACHEREBOOT keyword. - The OLDMMURESET option now also applies to software generated resets. This should help softkicked A3000s to reboot without wiping out the KickStart. - Halt REKICK will now clear the Capture and KickTag vectors in ExecBase, wiping out resident modules. - ShowSys and Sysmon now use a 64/32 integer division routine from Thomas Richter to convert EClockVals to regular time. As a side effect of no longer using floating point math, these commands also reduced in size. - The new SetTrapVectors command allows supervisor mode CPU exceptions to also be captured by the extended alert function. This command should be run just before SetPatch in the Startup-Sequence. V1.14 beta - The library now calls ColdReboot() via a cached vector to bypass patches that may interfere with resets. It needs to be able to reset the system even from supervisor mode or with all tasks frozen. Note that the mmu.library patch is still called as mmu.library will be opened before caching the destination address of the ColdReboot() vector. - smSendBroadcastMsg() didn't set the BMF_DOOMSDAY flag automatically. Fixed. The timeout as also limited to 1/10th second when a reset is pending. - Added OLDMMURESET config option to force reinstallation of the boot MMU config before reboot on a keyboard trapped reset. Use only on systems that fail to reset properly otherwise as sending a KBD_RESETHANDLERDONE command from supervisor mode is a bit dirty. - Updated StartSM, Broadcast and AlertDump commands. AlertDump will now translate the Guru Meditation number. - Added the BcMTest broadcast messages test client. - Added the Show KickTag and Show Broadcast commands to the Sysmon monitor. V1.13 beta First public beta release of Sysmon V1 - More functions added to the library. - New config options, TRAPRESET, MOVEVBR, RAMLIBPATCH. - New support commands Broadcast, AlertDump. - Rewrote exec task signal exception handling completely. - Added new task scheduling states TS_HIBER, TS_WAITAND. - Rewrote exec Alert() routine, adding a reset resistant logging buffer, reintroducing the 'Guru Meditation' message and using mmu.library if available to properly write the alert data to the zero page. - Added a new alert.hook resident module (V41) to also provide the new display to deferred deadend alerts. - Added a countdown to the shutdown script and a QUICK option for the keyboard reset trap feature. - Added broadcast messages. - smHalt() now uses smFreeze() to stop other tasks instead of RemTask(). - More commands implemented in the Sysmon monitor. - Added an Executive compatible SysInfo.library, with support only for cumulated CPU usage at present. - Documentation updated and converted to AmigaGuide format. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 32405 10105 68.8% 01-Aug-00 14:38:18 +sysmon_lib.doc 16396 7092 56.7% 19-May-00 12:25:48 +AlertDump 1480 938 36.6% 19-May-00 12:27:14 +BcMTest 1212 790 34.8% 19-May-00 12:25:52 +Broadcast 1568 942 39.9% 23-Feb-00 18:44:54 +Freeze 672 495 26.3% 23-Feb-00 18:45:00 +Halt 784 581 25.8% 23-Feb-00 18:45:10 +Request 1436 1005 30.0% 23-Feb-00 18:45:22 +RunBackground 632 478 24.3% 12-Aug-00 17:41:02 +SetTrapVectors 4460 2625 41.1% 01-Aug-00 15:23:52 +ShowSys 4852 2725 43.8% 01-Aug-00 14:45:44 +StartSM 776 561 27.7% 23-Feb-00 18:45:48 +SysLog 32176 16760 47.9% 01-Aug-00 17:33:44 +Sysmon 8996 5866 34.7% 01-Aug-00 15:39:24 +Timer 1580 944 40.2% 23-Feb-00 18:46:12 +UnFreeze 1840 1310 28.8% 23-Feb-00 18:46:16 +UnMount 808 573 29.0% 23-Feb-00 18:46:22 +ValidateWait 1805 602 66.6% 30-May-00 14:30:52 +sysmon_lib.fd 15089 5222 65.3% 01-Aug-00 14:39:02 +sysmon.h 13825 5101 63.1% 01-Aug-00 14:39:20 +sysmon.i 2331 580 75.1% 06-Jun-00 18:10:24 +sysmon_pragmas.h 1619 642 60.3% 30-May-00 14:29:56 +sysmon_protos.h 1764 1138 35.4% 23-Feb-00 19:20:06 +SysInfo.library 11580 7111 38.5% 01-Aug-00 14:43:16 +sysmon.library 1951 832 57.3% 30-May-00 14:32:00 +Shutdown 272 207 23.8% 01-Aug-00 14:39:38 +Sysmon.config 27229 6816 74.9% 30-May-00 14:29:24 +AlertDump.c 4332 1683 61.1% 30-May-00 14:29:24 +BcMTest.c 3797 1448 61.8% 30-May-00 14:29:10 +Broadcast.c 2710 1089 59.8% 02-Aug-00 15:00:38 +ExcptTest.c 2787 1155 58.5% 30-May-00 14:29:12 +Freeze.c 2310 1027 55.5% 30-May-00 14:29:14 +Halt.c 3938 911 76.8% 01-Aug-00 14:41:08 +makefile 2519 1164 53.7% 30-May-00 14:29:14 +Request.c 3150 1338 57.5% 30-May-00 14:29:14 +RunBackground.c 12908 4154 67.8% 01-Aug-00 15:14:14 +ShowSys.c 353 213 39.6% 23-Feb-00 18:54:06 +smakefile 4484 1407 68.6% 23-Feb-00 18:54:02 +SysInfo.c 2687 1133 57.8% 30-May-00 14:29:18 +SysLog.c 5612 1967 64.9% 01-Aug-00 15:35:54 +Timer.c 2809 1153 58.9% 30-May-00 14:29:20 +UnFreeze.c 6704 2337 65.1% 30-May-00 14:29:22 +UnMount.c 2740 1204 56.0% 30-May-00 14:29:22 +ValidateWait.c 76814 26677 65.2% 16-Aug-00 12:39:32 +Sysmon.guide -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 330192 132101 59.9% 28-Aug-100 19:45:48 44 files