Textual LCDs on servers (was Re: NEC SX-4B on Ebay)

11 Oct 2008

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    If I had a Cray at my disposal, I'd probably give
LCDproc
 <http://www.lcdproc.org/> a try 
 Well, at least some of the SGI Origin machines had a LCD like this in
 every node, diplaying various things like CPU utilization etc..  
 Interesting.  The largest/newest SGI machines I ever got to play
 with were Onyx and Crimson boxes.

 Could you access the LCD from user-land processes, or was there
 always a system monitor running on them? 
The Apple Network Servers have a user-accessible LCD. There is an LCDproc
for them, but ANS AIX will let you drive it directly with the lcdstring
command. root has this in my 500's crontab:

* * * * * /usr/bin/uptime | /usr/sbin/lcdstring

The function of this should be obvious :)

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Textual LCDs on servers (was Re: NEC SX-4B on Ebay)