---
name: "spmonitor"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "spread"
version: "3.17.4-2+b1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/spmonitor"
---

# spmonitor(1)

Spread Monitoring and Adminstration client

## NAME

spmonitor - Spread Monitoring and Adminstration client

## SYNOPSIS

**spmonitor \[-n** *proc\_name***\] \[-c** *config\_file***\] \[-t** *status\_timeout***\] \[-p** *port***\]**

## DESCRIPTION

**spmonitor** Provides a general monitoring and administrative tool for the Spread system.  The spmonitor program can send queries and commands to Spread daemons to either gather debugging or performance statistics, or to shut down specific daemons or change flow control parameters of the system to tune performance.

Some details about the effective use of the spmonitor program are contained in the Users Guide which is available from the Spread web site www.spread.org.

## OPTIONS

- \-t status\_timeout

  The seconds between every status report. The default is 10.

- \-p port

  The port number, to which the spmonitor  program should connect in order to reach a Spread daemon.

- \-n proc\_name

  Force this daemon to be identified by a specific process name.

- \-c config-file

  Use an alternate configuration file *config-file* instead of *./spread.conf*.

## FILES

*./spread.conf*

The default config file location.  */etc/spread.conf* is also searched if a local file is not found.

## BUGS

The spmonitor works by sending UDP packets to the Spread daemon, so if network  losses occur, commands or status reports can be lost. It can also lose reports when monitoring a large number of daemons.

## AUTHOR

Yair Amir \<yairamir@cnds.jhu.edu\>

Jonathan Stanton \<jonathan@cnds.jhu.edu\>

Spuser is Copyright 1998-2001 Spread Concepts, LLC.

## SEE ALSO

[**libsp**(3)](/libsp/3.md) [**spread**(1)](/spread/1.md)