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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. What is pmSysMon ? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
SystemMonitor v3.0
The ultimate monitoring Tool for OS/2
pmSysMon is a 32-bit multithreaded PM statusbar that displays (almost)
everything you've ever wanted .
You can freely configure which information you want to be displayed and which
items should be disabled.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. pmSysMon Registation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
pmSysMon Registation
The registration fee is only 10 US$ or 100 ATS or 15 DM. Where can you get the
satisfacton of being honest at a lower price? But first:
Benefits of Registering
How to Register
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. Benefits of Registering ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
If you register pmSysMon
you'll keep the shareware-idea alive :-)
you'll see no annoying registration-dialog at startup and end
you are allowed to choose any wave you like
you'll be informed when there are updates which will work with your
existing registration mumber
-> Updates are FREE ;-(
And How to Register??
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.2. How to Register ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
You are licensed to use SystemMonitor for a period of 30 days, after this trial
period you are asked :-) to register.
There are several Benefits of Registering
To do this, just fill in the text provided in the file ORDER.FRM and send it to
the address below.
The registration fee is 10 US$ or 100 ATS or 15 DM.
You can send the money in cash (which is cheaper for you) or you use a postal
order (that is,send the money via post office,not via bank ).
Sorry, we are not able to accept either checks or other currencies.
If you choose a postal order, please send the money in Austrian Shillings; if
you send cash DO NOT send coins.
We cannot accept any other form of payment (e.g. credit cards,checks). (The
bank takes nearly 80% of a $10 check as commission, which we cannot afford).
We are really honest, so you don't have to worry when sending the money in cash
!
Of course all of the given information will be treated confidentially.
Take care, when filling in order.frm, that your first and last names are
legible and correct, because we will base your registration code calculated on
this information.
After you enter this number, your version of SystemMonitor is registered.
It will be much easier if you also send us your Internet E-mail address, so we
can send you update announcements and the registration number more quickly and
easily.
To register fill in the order form, and send it and the payment to:
Irmgard Wasinger
Turmburgg. 2/33
1060 Vienna
AUSTRIA
E-mail: e8925005@stud1.tuwien.ac.at
Registration is for personal use only!!! Running this Program on more than one
machine requires special registration - contact the authors for special prices.
Students can request a special academic price.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Features ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Features
The features which are displayed in the bar can be turned on and off by either
clicking the right mouse-button or by double-clicking the left one on the bar.
You will then see a pop-up menu that allows you to check all the items you want
displayed in the bar, and to uncheck those you choose not to use.
Another, easier to use, way is to do all of the configuration in the Notebook's
Display Page.
Using the pop-up menu or the Notebook, you can also select which buttons are to
appear in the bar - for more detailed information, see Special Features.
Click here for detailed information on the Features pmSysMon can display!
To configure the look and performance of pmSysMon, see Configuration.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Special Features ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
There are several buttons in the action bar which either display extra
information or perform some action, e.g. program launch or system shutdown.
If you don't want the buttons to be displayed, you can get the same effect by
selecting 'Utils' in the pop-up menu. This will bring up a submenu, in which
you can select the same features.
If pmSysMon has the focus,you can also use shortcuts instead of pressing the
buttons.
e.g. Alt-t will bring up the tasklist, Alt-r will launch the Run dialog, ..
Battery
Lock
Run
Task
Disk
Shut
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1. Battery ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
This feature is available only in a laptop machine which supports the
power-saving feature.
APM enabled
Displays if your computer is battery powered; if you are using a laptop,
it should always say 'Yes'.
APM online
Battery Status
Displays the status of your battery: High, Low, Critical or Charging.
Battery Life
Displays state of charge of your battery - 100% means fully charged, 0%
means empty.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2. Lock ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Enables you to lock your system.
This is a fast and easy way to password-protect your system if you want to
leave your computer for some minutes.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3. Run ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Opens a file-selection dialog, so you can choose an executable file (*.exe,
*.com, *.cmd, *.bat) to run.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.4. Task ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Opens a Task List, which displays all running tasks.
On the Configuration page in the Configuration Notebook you can also specify
that the pmSysMon tasklist is to replace the system Window List, and is to
appear when both mouse buttons are pressed.
pmSysMon's tasklist is freely sizable and its size and position are stored, so
it always pops up in the same place.
By pressing the right mouse button on an entry you a menu will appear
allowing you to
- Switch To
- Quit (or press Delete)
- Kill
- Minimize
- get INFO about
any task you like.
Quit assures that unsaved data is not lost; Kill terminates the
application without saving.
There are additional security features which warn you if you try to close
e.g. a invisible application, or some task which the system might need.
You can have the Task List open on your desktop until you close it or
switch to another program.
(unlike the system Window List, which disappears when it loses the focus,
or when you terminate a running application)
The Task List notices if any application was started or terminated, and
generally refreshes itself.
Multiple Task Selection is possible for all actions except getting
information about a selected task.
Sorting and Filtering By pressing the right mousse button on empty space
or the container title a menu will appear allowing you to
- Sort the contents of the Task List by either name or PID.
- Filter only Visible or Jumpable entries.
- Refresh the Task List manually.
Information about a task is only displayed if you select 'Info'.
If you select 'Info', a dialog will appear which shows you the
- Pid
- Session
- ProgType (e.g. PM,WindowableVIO,VDM,..)
- Visibility
of the selected task.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.5. Disk ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Choosing this option causes a dialog to open, showing you the following:
FileSystem: Indicates if this Drive is a HPFS, CDFS or FAT formatted
drive.
Location: Indicates if this Drive is a local or remote drive.
Removable: Indicates if this Drive is removable (CD or Floppy Disk) or
not.
Description: Indicates the type of this Drive (e.g. Floppy, Fixed Disk,
Tape Drive, ...).
VolumeLable: Shows the label of this drive.
Total Space: Shows the size of the drive.
Free Space: Shows the ammount of free space on this drive
Used Space: Shows the ammount of used space on this drive
The button with the Folder Icon enables you to Open the drive which is
currently selected.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.6. Shut ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
pmSysMon offers you three ways to shut down your system:
Shutdown
Performs a normal shutdown, after which you can either reset your
computer or switch it off.
Reboot (this) OS/2
After shutdown, OS/2 is automatically rebooted (this means that the Boot
Manager is skipped if you have one installed).
Choose BootDrive
Reboots from the drive you specify in the adjacent field (also overrides
the Boot Manager).
(Note - If you choose a drive with no bootable system, the system will
boot from drive C).
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Configuration ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Configuration
In addition to selecting which Features you want to be displayed in the bar,
you can also configure many other details of the look and the performance of
pmSysMon to suit yourself.
By using Drag and Drop you can adapt the Color and Font to your liking.
All other configuring is done in a notebook which appears when you select
'Configuration...' in the pop-up menu.
Configuration
Appearance
Sound
Refresh
Display
Alarm
If you do not want to apply the changes you made just press the 'Cancel'
button.
Otherwise press 'Ok'.
On the bottom of every notebook page there is a 'Help' button which provides
an expaination about that page.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.1. Configuration ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
On this page the basic configuration of pmSysMon can be done:
Always on Top
If this item is checked, pmSysMon will come to the front, and never be
hidden by any other window
(so you can always see the status bar).
Replace System Window List
If this item is checked, pmSysMon's Task List will pop up when you press
both left and right mouse-button, instead of the system Window List.
(You can still see the system Window List by pressing Ctrl+Esc)
pmSysMon's Task List has a lot of features
NumLock turned on at program start
As OS/2 turns NumLock off every time after boot, it might be useful to
have pmSysMon turning it on when started.
If the NumLock state is already 'On', it remains in that state.
If you are using a laptop, this feature is always turned off as turning
Numlock on remaps the alpha-numeric keys on almost every laptop, which
can make texts unreadable.
This machine is battery powered
Check this feature is you are using a laptop !
If this item is checked, you are able to monitor the status of your
battery.
Show Seconds
If this item is checked and 'Time' is selected from the Popup-Menu, the
time is displayed with seconds.
If you're working on a slow computer, keep this option turned off as the
time display will (of course) be updated every second.
Free Diskspace in percent
If this item is checked, the free space of the monitored drives and the
disk usage in the Disk dialog is shown in percent rather than in the
absolute byte value.
Compact UpTime
Checking this item causes the uptime to be displayed in a more compact
way to save some space in the bar.
If less than a day has passed, only hours and minutes are displayed, and
if your computer was running for more than a day, only days and hours are
shown.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2. Appearance ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Configure the appearance of pmSysMon:
CPU Graphical
If this item is checked, the CPU activity will be displayed graphically
rather than as plain text. This is much more attractive, but consumes
more space in the bar and a little more of the CPU's time.
CPU Pulse-like
If you select this item and 'CPU graphical' is checked, the CPU activity
will be displayed as a time function (like IBM's Pulse), rather than as a
triangle. This has the advantage that you can see how the activity
changes over a period of time, while the triangle displays only the
current CPU usage.
Pulse filled
Same as 'CPU Pulse-like', but the interior of the pulse is filled.
Note that if you are working on a slow machine, it will probable enhance
your system performance if you do not use the filled pulse-type CPU
display, because this mode keeps the CPU busier than do the triangle or
plain text modes.
Shrink to minimum width
If this item is checked, the status bar doesn't occupy the whole width of
your screen but uses only as much space as required to display the items
you chose.
Long Descriptions in bar
If this item is checked, the descriptions of the features displayed in
the status bar will be whole words instead of abbreviations,
e.g. 'Swap', 'UpTime', 'Virtual Mem' instead of 'Swp', 'Up', 'VMem'
or
Border Width
Move the slider to adjust the width of the bar's border to your liking.
This gives you the possibility to configure pmSysMon's 3 dimensional
look.
Color and Font
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2.1. Color And Font ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Color and Font
You can change the
Background Color of the Bar
by dropping a color onto the bar.
Foreground Color of the Bar
(the color of the font) by pressing Ctrl and dropping a color onto the
bar.
Pulse Color
by pressing Ctrl and dropping a color onto the Cpu Graph.
Triangle Color
by pressing Ctrl and dropping a color onto the Cpu Graph.
This wil bring up a dialog where you can specify if you want to change
the color for critical or low Cpu load.
Font
by dropping a font onto the bar.
Note that by changing the font size, you also change the height of the
bar and the room an item needs to be displayed.
( So the larger the font,the less information can be monitored )
You should try different combinations of font, size and style to find out
what is best for your needs.
e.g. if you want as many items as possible to be monitored, it will be
best to choose a small size and a narrow font.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.3. Sound ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Configure which sound file you want played, and how often this is to be done:
This page is only available if you have MMOS2 installed on your system and if
you're not using the -quiet command line option, so you don't see a notebook
page with everything disabled.
You can choose any .WAV file you like (in the registered version) by pressing
the 'Select Wave ..' button.
This sound will then be played at intervalls you select (e.g. every
hour,quarter-hourly, etc.)
- just click on the button with the time interval you prefer.
If you don't want any sounds, select 'None'.
(We found it useful to have a reminder sound to keep us in mind of the passage
of time.)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.4. Refresh ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Configure the refresh rates of the features:
By moving the corresponding slider, you choose how often the various displays
are to be updated.
Note that your system will be less busy if the values of the update frequencies
are higher, but you may not notice changes and the values (especially for CPU)
will be less accurate.
These values are effective only if the corresponding items are displayed in the
status bar (e.g. if you don't need the information about Swap, it will not be
sampled by the program).
CPU
This value determines how often the CPU Activity is updated
( if you chose graphical display: how often the graph is redrawn ).
This also effects the Average CPU Activity.
Mem
This value determines how often the value of the Virtual Memory
and the Physical Memory are updated.
The number of active Tasks is updated with the same refresh rate.
Swap
This value determines how often the size of the Swap file
and Swap Free is updated .
Drives
This value determines how often the free space of the monitored
Drives is updated .
( It usually makes sense to have a larger value for this feature,
because the free space on your drives won't often change rapidly ).
The Battery Status is updated with the same refresh rate.
The default values used by pmSysMon are the ones we considered a good
trade-off between accuracy and time-consumption.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.5. Display ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Check all the features and buttons you want to be displayed in the bar (and
uncheck those you are not interested in).
If you check an item, but there is too little room in the bar for displaying
it, you'll be informed by a dialog.
This dialog can be disabled by checking off the checkbox saying "Don't show
this message next time" once.
These are all the features that can be displayed in the bar :
Date,Time
Displays actual date and time (with seconds or without ).
Date and Time are separately configurable.
- this means you can also choose to display Time only, Date only, or
both.
Time and date are displayed in the format for which OS/2 is currently
configured
- this means that if you have configured the date format as YYMMDD, and
with '/' as separator, this is how the date will be displayed.
So what you see might look like or or maybe like .
UpTime
Displays the time that passed since your last reboot.
CPU activity
Displays the percentage of CPU usage to show how busy your processor is (
0% means CPU is idle ).
There are four possible views.
The CPU activity can be displayed as:
1. Plain Text
2. Graphically as a triangle filled with current usage.
3. Graphically as empty pulse
This allows you to monitor the evolution of CPU activity with time.
4. Graphically as filled pulse
If you're working on a slow system, you should notice that monitoring CPU
activity consumes some extra processor time
- if you choose text-only display, less CPU time is consumed by pmSysMon.
If you turn the CPU monitoring feature off, CPU activity isn't measured
at all, and the system will run a little faster.
Average Cpu Activity
Displays the average CPU usage since pmSysMon started.
This value is most accurate if you put pmSysMon in the Startup-Folder,
because then average CPU usage is calculated using all information since
boot.
Number of Tasks
Displays the number of tasks which are currently active.
Virtual Memory
Displays the amount of free Virtual Memory.
Note that Virtual Memory includes RAM and swapped memory .
Physical Memory
Displays the amount of free Physical Memory.
Swap
Displays the size of your swap file.
Swap Free
Tells you how much your swap file can be enlarged.
Drives
Displays the available space of as many drives as you are interested in.
You can either highlight all the drives you want to be monitored in the
Drives Listbox of the notebook, or you can use the popup-menu.
After selecting the 'Drives' item from the pop-up menu, a submenu will
appear which lists all the drives installed on your system.
Click on the letter of the drive you wish to monitor (e.g D:) and the
desired information will appear in the bar.
See Special Features for detailed information about the functionallity of the
buttons.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.6. Alarm ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
If you like to be warned when the free space on your harddisk gets below a
certain minmum, check this item.
In the listbox you can select which drives should be checked for low space, and
the limit for these drives can be set either in MB's or in percentage of the
disk's size.
In the case the space on any of the selected drives gets below the limit, an
alarm sound will occur and a dialog will appear.
There you see which drive caused the warning and by pressing the 'Search
Deletable Files' button you have the possibility of Searching For Files you
probably don't need anymore (like *.tmp or *.bak) and deleting the unnecessary
ones after pressing the 'Delete ..' button.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Search For (Deletable) Files ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Search For (Deletable) Files
This Dialog helps you clean up your hard disk - additionally it can be used to
search for files using Regular Expression !
Use the Delete button to delete all the selected files.
Use the View button to start E.EXE with all the selected files.
Use the Open Icon button to open the directories the selected files
reside in.
Use the Search button to start a new search.
Cleaning up the hard disk
Select file specs you consider unneeded by pressing the adequate checkbox.
Selecting Contents of TempDir will add all files found in the directories
specified in your CONFIG.SYS as a temporary directory (SET TEMP=...).
TEMP,TMP,TEMPDIR and TMPDIR are taken into account.
Selecting Contents of DelDir will add all files found in the directories
specified in your CONFIG.SYS as an 'undelete' directory (SET DELDIR=...).
Last but not least you can supply a Regular Expression search pattern which
will be compared with all files on your hard disk.
Then start the search by pressing Search - after the ListBox is filled select
all unneccessary files and press Delete.
Just Searching For Files
The Regular Expression entryfield supplies you with a powerful tool to look
for files. Turn off all other checkboxes (*.TMP,...) and use a search pattern
which will be compared with all files on the drive.
e.g.: FILE.*\.CHK$ will match all File????.CHK
If you need case sensitive searching don't forget to turn on that checkbox.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. CommandLine Options ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
CommandLine Options
To use a commandline option, type pmSysMon -Option or pmSysMon /Option or add
-Option in the parameter field of the programm's configuration page (available
by pressing the right mouse-button on the pmSysMon icon on your desktop).
Possible CommandLine Options are:
QUIET
If you have MMOS2 installed on your system but don't want the music.dll
to be loaded because you don't use the Sound features, use this option.
MMOS2
If you have MMOS2 installed on your system but pmSysMon doesn't detect
it, you can force use of the Sound by adding this option.
(If this problem occurs, please inform the authors!)
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. About the Authors ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
About the Authors
We're two students, studying Physics at the Technical University of Vienna; our
names and addresses as follows:
Irmgard Wasinger
Turmburgg. 2/33
1060 Vienna
AUSTRIA
E-mail: e8925005@stud1.tuwien.ac.at
Ramin Nourbakhch
Siebertg. 34/14
1120 Vienna
AUSTRIA
E-mail: e8925004@stud1.tuwien.ac.at
Please feel free to contact us, either by post or E-mail, with any
suggestions, remarks, or bug reports. We depend on this sort of feedback from
our users to help us define the direction of our development.