CSPMonitor(1)

💖 CSPMonitor(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because today we're learning about cspmonitor from the General Commands Manual — a CSP server for monitoring RSerPool components, and honestly? she's a whole vibe. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cspmonitor — a CSP server for monitoring RSerPool components 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cspmonitor [-localaddress=address:port] [-updateinterval=milliseconds]
           [-purgeinterval=milliseconds] [-compact] [-full] [-maxpr=PRs]
           [-maxpe=PEs] [-maxpu=PUs] [-maxlocationsize=characters]
           [-logappend=filename] [-logcolor=on|off] [-logfile=filename]
           [-loglevel=0-9]

like yes, that's a lot of flags, but every single one of them is serving a purpose, so no skipping 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

cspmonitor is a simple simple (yes bestie, the manpage really said it twice, and honestly? relatable) Component Status Protocol (CSP) monitor server. 🎀

Here's the tea, fr fr: it receives status messages from components via UDP and prints them right there on your screen. That's it, that's the job.

This program is genuinely useful if you want to keep an overview of all your running RSerPool components — like a little group chat for your processes, except instead of messages it's status reports and instead of friends it's daemons. no cap. 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

The following options are available:

• -localaddress=address:port — sets the local UDP socket address and port number. by default she listens on all addresses, port 2960. she's not picky, she's everywhere 💫
• -updateinterval=milliseconds — sets the update interval in milliseconds. Default: 1000.
• -purgeinterval=milliseconds — sets the purge interval in milliseconds. Default: 30000.
• -compact — turns ON compact status display mode. cute and tiny, we love a minimalist queen 🙈
• -full — turns ON full status display mode (default). she said "give me EVERYTHING" 💅
• -maxpr=PRs — limits the number of PRs to be displayed to the given number.
• -maxpr=PEs — limits the number of PEs to be displayed to the given number.
• -maxpr=PUs — limits the number of PUs to be displayed to the given number.

okay bestie, real talk: yeah, the page literally spells -maxpr three times in a row for PRs, PEs and PUs. i am simply the messenger 🫡 i did not write this, i am only narrating it, and i am keeping every character exactly as she appears.

• -maxlocationsize=characters — limits the location string size to the given number of characters. ✂️

🧚 Logging Parameters 🧚

• -logappend=filename — write logging output to a file (default is stdout); output will be appended to the given file. she's not erasing anything, she's adding to the lore 📖
• -logcolor=on|off — turns ANSI colorization of the logging output on or off. 🌈✨
• -logfile=filename — write logging output to a file (default is stdout); the given file will be overwritten. 😭 she's destructive, be careful
• -loglevel=0-9 — sets the logging verbosity from 0 (none) to 9 (very verbose). It is recommended to use at least a value of 2 to see possibly important error messages and warnings. ⚠️

ngl, running at loglevel 0 and then wondering where the warnings went is a canon event. at least 2, bestie, please. i'm begging 🙏

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

cspmonitor uses the environment variables CSP_SERVER and CSP_INTERVAL to define a CSP server to send reports to in the specified interval. 👀

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👑 DIAGNOSTICS 👑

If loglevel>0, log messages will be printed to stdout or into a specified log file. simple as that, periodt. 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

For a detailed introduction to RSerPool, see: https://duepublico.uni-duisburg-essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-16326/Dre2006_final.pdf

Thomas Dreibholz's RSerPool Page: https://www.nntb.no/~dreibh/rserpool/

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🫶 this one's the CSP Monitor, dated May 12, 2025, and it lives under the name CSPMonitor(1). go monitor something iconic, ily, bye 💖🎀🦋