1os_mon(7) Erlang Application Definition os_mon(7)
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6 os_mon - OS Monitoring Application
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9 The operating system monitor, OS_Mon, provides the following services:
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11 * cpu_sup CPU load and utilization supervision (Unix)
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13 * disksup Disk supervision(Unix, Windows)
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15 * memsup Memory supervision (Unix, Windows, VxWorks)
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17 * os_sup Interface to OS system messages (Solaris, Windows)
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19 To simplify usage of OS_Mon on distributed Erlang systems, it is not
20 considered an error trying to use a service at a node where it is not
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28 When OS_Mon is started, by default all services available for the OS,
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32 start_cpu_sup = bool():
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35 start_disksup = bool():
36 Specifies if disksup should be started. Defaults to true.
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38 start_memsup = bool():
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41 start_os_sup = bool():
42 Specifies if os_sup should be started. Defaults to false.
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44 Configuration parameters effecting the different OS_Mon services are
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47 See config(4) for information about how to change the value of configu‐
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51 The following MIBs are defined in OS_Mon:
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53 OTP-OS-MON-MIB:
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55 CPU usage of the nodes in the system.
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57 The MIB is stored in the mibs directory. It is defined in SNMPv2 SMI
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61 The compiled MIB is located under priv/mibs, and the generated .hrl
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63 OTP-OS-MON-MIB, give the option {il, ["os_mon/priv/mibs"]} to the MIB
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69 unload the MIB. The implementation of this MIB uses Mnesia to store a
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75 cpu_sup(3), disksup(3), memsup(3), os_sup(3), nteventlog(3), snmp(3).
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