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Classic CPDN - Monitoring multiple Classic clients

Postby pompeleya » Sat Jan 17, 2004 11:24 pm

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. :lol:

And if cpdn could link to user made addons similar to seti@home, i would be happy. [-o<
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Postby UK_Nick » Sun Jan 18, 2004 7:53 am

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.
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Postby pompeleya » Sun Jan 18, 2004 1:13 pm

Yes, some need it more than others :lol:

Just out of curiosity, which file is it you can see the progress in?
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Postby verstapp » Sun Jan 18, 2004 9:46 pm

And if you think you've got problems, pompeleya and Nick, then imagine how much someone like geier would appreciate a tool like that.
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Postby MartinSykes31 » Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:02 pm

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:

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

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Postby MartinSykes31 » Mon Jan 19, 2004 4:20 pm

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?
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Postby Honza » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:42 pm

MartinSykes31 wrote: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?

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Postby pompeleya » Mon Jan 19, 2004 5:59 pm

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?
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Postby MartinSykes31 » Tue Jan 20, 2004 3:29 pm

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.


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Postby UK_Nick » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:13 pm

Wrong .exe linked Martin..?
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Postby MartinSykes31 » Tue Jan 20, 2004 4:16 pm

Thanks Nick, I've changed it now.
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Postby Honza » Tue Jan 20, 2004 10:26 pm

Hi Martin,

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

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 :D
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Postby MartinSykes31 » Wed Jan 21, 2004 10:09 am

Same link, new version with the model date displayed as well.
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Postby Honza » Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:14 am

MartinSykes31 wrote:Same link, new version with the model date displayed as well.


Well, what to say - Good job :P
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Postby UK_Nick » Wed Jan 21, 2004 11:52 am

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.
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