Tips and tricks for Beocat users

Beocat has a number of tools to make your work easier, some which you may not know about. This is a simple list of these programs and some basic usage scenarios.

nmon

The name is short for "Nigel's Monitor", it's a program written by Nigel Griffiths from IBM. Link to IBM's wiki page for nmon

nmon analyser

A tool for producing graphs and spreadsheets from output generated by nmon. Link to IBM's wiki page for nmon analyser

htop

A prettier, easier to use top.

screen

A sort of terminal multiplexer, allows you to run many terminal programs at once without mixing them up. Also allows you to disconnect and reconnect sessions. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Using_screen

Ganglia

The web-based load monitoring tool for the cluster. http://beocat.cis.ksu.edu

dstat

A very detailed performance analyzer. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/