SINFO-CLIENT(1)

💖 SINFO-CLIENT(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the User Manuals section, we're talking about sinfo-client today and honestly? she's iconic. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

sinfo-client — a monitoring tool for networked computers (client) 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sinfo-client [-q] [-V] [-W] [-H] [-L] [-h host[:port] ] [-u user ] [-d
delay ] [-s] [-o] [-i process ] [-n] [-D] [-t count ] [-i processname ]
[-c scale ]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So basically, sinfo-client shows you the tea on the nodes in your local network. For each node you get the system load, the memory utilization, and the TOP-5 user processes. That's the whole vibe check. 🔥

sinfo-client gets all of this from sinfod(8). If you want the deep lore about how the internal mechanisms work, go read the sinfod(8) manual. No cap.

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -q/--quiet — be quiet, bestie. Don't display startup informations. 🤫
• -V/--version — Print the version number and exit. Short and sweet, we love a queen who knows when to leave.
• -W/--wwwmode — Web-mode: List all hosts and their informations in html-format and exit. Go peek at sinfo.pl.cgi for a sample cgi-script. 🌈
• -H/--hostsmode — List all host names of nodes running a sinfod(8) and exit. Just the names, nothing extra.
• -I/--ipmode — List all IPs of nodes running a sinfod(8) and exit. Numbers only, periodt.
• --hostsandipmode — List all host names and IP addresses of nodes running a sinfod(8) and exit. Both. She's giving ✨overachiever✨.
• -L/--loadmode — List all known host names with the current system load and exit.
• -h/--host <host[:port]> — Fetch information from the sinfod(8) running on host instead of localhost. You may also specify the port number of the sinfod(8) your are connecting to. This option may be useful in cases where ssh(1) or similar programs are used to tunnel the connection from sinfo-client(1) to sinfod(8) through a firewall. It is possible to use multiple -h option to connect to more than one sinfod to monitor more than one network with one sinfo-client process. If your want to set different delays for the connections -d has to be specified prior to the corresponding -h options. 🫶

$ sinfo-client -h localhost:60001
(the default values)

$ sinfo-client -h 127.0.0.1:60001
(... if you want to set an IP-address directly)

$ sinfo-client -h my.computer.at.work
(port 60001 will be used as default on my.computer.at.work)

$ ssh -q -C me@my.computer.at.work -L 60002:my.computer.at.work:60001
(establish the tunnel)
$ sinfo-client -h localhost:60002
(connect through the tunnel)

$ sinfo-client -h localhost -h host.on.another.net
(connect two demons to join the sinfo broadcasts of two networks)

• --udp / --tcp — Use UDP(default) or TCP to connect to sinfod.
• -u/--user <user> — Highlight all processes of user instead of using environment variable $LOGNAME. Main character energy, but for someone else. 💜
• -d/--delay <delay> — Set the delay (in seconds) between two updates. Default is one second. Patience is a virtue, but one second is plenty.
• --filtermarker <marker> — Request only informations matching <marker>. Filtering, we love her.
• -s/--systeminfo — Include system information (resolved by a uname -a call) in the list. 🧚
• -o/--own — Only display your own processes or the processes owned by user -u user (this overrides the -t count setting). Your business, your rules.
• -i/--ignore <process> — Don't display <process> ; --ignore may be set multiple times. Blocked, blocked, blocked. 🚫 (but cute)
• -n/--netload — Display network load.
• -D/--diskload — Display disk load (buffer allocation rate) of locally connected disks. 💾
• -t/--top <count> — Restrict the number of processes displayed to count. Only the VIPs get in. 👑
• -c/--scale <scale> — Set the scaling of the CPU load bars to "log", "lin" or "full".

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⌨️ KEYBOARD COMMANDS ⌨️

• q — Quit sinfo-client. Bye bestie! 👋
• PageUp, PageDown — Scroll the screen by one page.
• UpArrow, u; DownArrow, d — Scroll the screen by one line. Little baby steps. 🐾
• Home — Jump to the top line. Back to the beginning, like a fresh start.
• s — Toggle display of system informations.
• o — Toggle display of your own processes.
• n — Toggle display of network informations.
• D — Toggle display of disk load.
• t — Toggle display of the TOP n processes.
• c — Toggle the scaling of the CPU load bars form "log", "lin" to full.

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💀 EXIT CODES 💀

The exit codes used by sinfo-client are:

1. 0 — everything OK ✨
2. 1 — Connection to sinfod failed. 😭

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🌱 ENVIRONMENT 🌱

• HOSTNAME — Highlight $HOSTNAME in sinfo-client's output.
• LOGNAME — Used to determine the name of the user which processes shall be highlighted. May be overridden by the -u option.
• TERM — The name of your terminal. Used to select escape sequences out of the terminfo(5) database.

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Juergen Rinas <jrinas@gmx.de>

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

sinfod(8), sshallsinfo(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one came out under Linux, dated JANUARY 2005, and honestly for a 2005 babe she's still serving looks. mwah 💅💖