monitor

System info and process monitor. Comprises the monitor, fps, uptime, loadavgLED commands, as well as the loadavgd daemon.

AIX

Configuration (AIX 3.2, V1.12)

Seems to work out-of-the-box.

Configuration (AIX >=4, V2.x)

To allow ordinary users to use monitor on AIX, access to /dev/mem and /dev/kmem has to be enabled. This is accomplished by means of acl options.

Check if the group kmem exists (lsgroup kmem). If not, create it, either locally or on the appropriate NIS server.

Create (or use an already existing) file monitor.acl

base permissions
    owner(root):  r--
    group(system):  r--
    others:  ---
extended permissions
    enabled
    permit   r--     g:kmem
    permit   r--     g:kmem
    permit   r--     g:kmem

(Existing acl-options can be read out by aclget /dev/mem > monitor.acl )

Set the acl-options

aclput -i monitor.acl /dev/mem
aclput -i monitor.acl /dev/kmem

Modify the binary's permissions:
```
chgrp kmem monitor
chmod g+s  monitor
```

Note:

acl-options do no survive cloning (as of AIX 4.3).
Each AIX release/version might need its appropriate monitor version.

Tru64, Ultrix

To allow all users to monitor change the binary:

chgrp kmem monitor
chmod g+s  monitor

Last update: 21-Jun-2009, M.Kraemer E.Rietzel@gsi.de

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