Classic CPDN - Monitoring multiple Classic clients

[pompeleya]

How about making a nifty little tool that can monitor the progress of the clients over a network. Its a pain having to turn on the screen just to see how it's doing.

And if cpdn could link to user made addons similar to seti@home, i would be happy.

[UK_Nick]

I'll ditto that one - my ten machines are spread all around the flat here, including up ladders in the lofts - I'd like to be able to monitor them at shorter than their trickle intervals.

[pompeleya]

Yes, some need it more than others

Just out of curiosity, which file is it you can see the progress in?

[verstapp]

And if you think you've got problems, pompeleya and Nick, then imagine how much someone like geier would appreciate a tool like that.

[MartinSykes31]

Here's something that might do the job. Note that it requires CP to be up and running before you start it.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/docs/CPFarmView.exe

To use it:

1. Create a shared directory somewhere on your network
2. Copy the CPFarmView.exe onto each machine and create a shortcut for it. It takes two parameters - first is the name of the machine and the second is the path of the shared directory. eg.

CPView "My Laptop" "F:\\CPFolder\\"

IMPORTANT: use \\ instead of \ as the directory separators and it must end with \\ as well.

The screen you get on each machine is like this:



It lists the machines, their phase, timestep and percent complete. Updated every 10s

Martin

[MartinSykes31]

I guess there will be some useful extras to this. eg.

Sort so that machines near to finishing are at the top? Would warn you that a machine may need watching during its upload. Estimated time of upload could be computed as well.

Highlight machines which haven't done any timesteps in the last minute?

[Honza]

I guess there will be some useful extras to this. eg.

Sort so that machines near to finishing are at the top? Would warn you that a machine may need watching during its upload. Estimated time of upload could be computed as well. Highlight machines which haven't done any timesteps in the last minute?

Hi Martin,

thanks for nice and small utill out there - it's working just fine. I'm running 4 CPDN over one network shared drive N:\

I agree with all futher suggestion you have mentioned above and I got some more regarding start-up options:
- start hidden
- start in tray
- start with Windows?

Honza

[pompeleya]

That's a great program, just what i was looking for

Could you make it so that it gets machine info from an ini-file for example?

[MartinSykes31]

OK, new version:

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm/docs/CPFarmView.zip

starts minimized
resides in systray ( double click to open )
displays approxiate model mean temperature
Pops up if a machine dies
Configured from a .ini file
Orders machines - problems first, then nearest end of phase
Can be placed in startup. Now waits for CP to start.

Martin

[UK_Nick]

Wrong .exe linked Martin..?

[MartinSykes31]

Thanks Nick, I've changed it now.

[Honza]

Hi Martin,

can we have another column showing model date? Temperature will be more meaningful then...

There is the same issue with cpdnshmem.dll: program is looking for it in default install dir...how about looking for cpdnshmem.dll also in .ini directory. Or better - link it to exe file.

I'm unable to run CPFarm on one box (not even CPVIEW - Error: RegBD_E_Classnotreg). It's Installation seems to be corrupted - can't even upgrade/repair from 2.2.25). Will wait 3 days to finish second model, uninstall and install again...

Anyway, CPFarm running well on other 3 boxes

[MartinSykes31]

Same link, new version with the model date displayed as well.

[Honza]

Same link, new version with the model date displayed as well.

Well, what to say - Good job

[UK_Nick]

Working fine on five of my ten machines under WinXP here but it doesn't work under WinME unfortunately - I have no idea why, it just doesn't display anything or write the .txt file to the shared directory.