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28 Feb 2010
Copyright (C) 2010 Kenneth Salerno


AUTHOR

Kenneth Salerno <first & last name (one word) at yahoo dot com>


NOTES TO USERS

This is a simple VM and I/O monitor that takes vmstat output and pairs it with
the top CPU consumers displaying some useful stats on each PID.
The purpose of this script is performance monitoring and troubleshooting
bottlenecks all in one screen.


TESTED ON THE FOLLOWING OPERATING SYSTEMS

RPM-based (kmon-*.noarch.rpm):
 Fedora 12 (written here)
 Red Hat Enterprise 4.8 (target OS)
 Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 (target OS)
 Scientific Linux 5.4
 OpenSUSE 11.2

DEB-based (kmon-*.noarch.deb):
 Debian 5.0.4

System V-based (kmon-*.noarch.pkg):
 IBM AIX 6.1
 SunOS 5.10 Solaris 10 (target OS)
 SunOS 5.11 OpenSolaris snv_111b

BSD (kmon-*.freebsd.noarch.tbz and kmon-*.openbsd.noarch.tgz):
 FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE (target OS)
 OpenBSD 4.6


INSTALL

   RPM-based GNU/Linux systems
   (RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Fedora, SuSE, OpenSUSE, etc.)
   # rpm -Uvh kmon-*.rpm

   DEB-based GNU/Linux systems (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.)
   # dpkg -i kmon-*.deb

   FreeBSD
   # pkg_add -v kmon-*.tbz

   OpenBSD
   # pkg_add kmon-*.tgz

   SunOS systems (Solaris, OpenSolaris)
   # pkgadd -d kmon-*.pkg


REMOVAL

   RPM-based systems (RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc.)
   # rpm -ev kmon

   DEB-based GNU/Linux systems (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.)
   # dpkg -r kmon

   FreeBSD
   # pkg_delete 'kmon-*'

   OpenBSD 
   # pkg_delete kmon

   SunOS systems (Solaris, OpenSolaris)
   # pkgrm -n kmon


USAGE

Run kmon:
   kmon

Run kmon with an update interval of 5 seconds:
   kmon 5

To quit kmon:
   CTRL+C


HELP

See Manual (man kmon) and kmon --help
Source: README.txt, updated 2010-02-28