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Short: System monitor (MUI & AmiTCP optional)
Author: tboeckel@uni-paderborn.de (Thore Böckelmann)
Uploader: tboeckel@uni-paderborn.de (Thore Böckelmann)
Type: util/moni
Requires: Kickstart 2.04, MUI and AmiTCP optional
Language: English (also German guide)
This is the official continuation of the famous (and fabulous :-)
system monitor from Andreas Gelhausen.
What is Scout?
==============
Scout is a tool that allows you to monitor your computer system. It displays
many different things -- like tasks, ports, assigns, expansion boards, resident
commands, interrupts, etc. -- and you can perform some certain actions on them.
For example you can freeze tasks, close windows and screens, release semaphores
or remove locks, ports and interrupts.
Through AmiTCP it's also possible to use Scout as a TCP/IP service.
Since version 2.0 of Scout you can use nearly all implemented functions through
shell parameters. Therefore it's not necessary to install MUI for using Scout,
but you will need MUI if you want to use Scout with its graphical user
interface.
BTW: Scout can open 49 different windows! :-)
Changes from release 2.15 to release 3.0:
==========================================
o Scout has been rewritten nearly completely. All lists have been replaced
by the much more advanced NList/NListtree classes. Thus the "sort" buttons
below the lists are gone, because you can either sort the lists by clicking
on the desired list column, or the lists don't need any sorting, because
they are sorted "by nature" (ie interrupts and BOOPSI classes), and
therefore displayed in a treeview instead of a list.
Additionally I have converted every single window into a MUI custom class.
This makes further development much easier and more safe.
o when gathering system information only "safe" string functions are used.
This means that these functions take care of the maximum size of a string,
there can't be any "string overflows" anymore.
o the tasks window now shows the remaining free stack of each task, too. So
you don't need to open the detail window to see the current stack usage.
If the remaining stack size is less then 512 bytes the stack entry will be
highlighted. You should have an eye on such tasks, or (even better)
increase the stack size if possible.
o Scout is now partitially localized. All the button texts and requester
messages are available in the catalog description. Currently only the
built-in english strings are available.
o all windows feature a "parent mode". Imagine the following: you open the
ports window, after that you open a port detail window via the "More"
button and finally you open the flags window for this port. After all that
you close the ports window and both the ports detail window and the flags
window will be closed, because their "parent" window has been closed.
This is a much more intuitive behaviour than having open sub windows while
the window, which lead to these sub windows, has been closed already.
o Scout can now show a list of all patched functions (libraries, devices and
resources) if you have either THOR's SaferPatches or SetMan 2.x installed.
I recommend SaferPatches, because it is written with much more sensibility
for AmigaOS and it's fragile SetFunction() problems.
o Scout can now show a list of all locale catalogs currently in memory.
o the devices detail window has been prepared for the forthcomming SANA2-R4
standard, which offers new commands. Anyway, currently no network driver
supports these new commands (as far as I know).
o Scout can now a list of all available AHI audiomodes and all available
information for each audiomode.