Courtesy binaries and RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5)

Posted by chris Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:54:46 GMT

RHEL5 is out and Göran recently passed this heads-up warning to the developers mailing list:

It might be worth mentioning that this won’t work any more for people using the i386 variant of RHEL5. The pre-compiled i386 qmon uses libXm.so.2 (Openmotif 2.1) which is no longer available in RHEL5.

It is not a problem for x86_64 RHEL5. The pre-compiled x86_64 qmon uses libXm.so.3 (Openmotif 2.2) which is still available in RHEL5 as a compatibility package. (Openmotif 2.3 is the default.)

For i386 arch users of RHEL it looks like getting the ‘qmon’ GUI to work may require building from source or installing a third-party OpenMotif 2.1 compatible RPM.

Two new qmon enhancements coming in 6.0u10

Posted by chris Sat, 23 Dec 2006 19:23:05 GMT

With patches supplied by Hin-Tak Leung (more on Hin-Tak in a later article), the following useful enhancements to the X11 'qmon' binary have been added to the CVS repository for inclusion in the next 6.0u10 release:

Custom Widths

Default: Customized:

The first screenshot shows the default layout for the Qmon Job Control pane. The 2nd screenshot shows the new column sizing and layout customized by altering options listed in a personal ~/Qmon preference file. In the cusomized layout, the job name field has been greatly expanded and the Job ID column width has been slightly decreased. A new sliding bar allows access to the columns that can not be displayed with the pane.

Adding Host details to the Cluster Queue pane

Default: Enhanced:

The first screenshot shows the default layout for the Qmon Cluster Queue pane, note that there are only two tabs available within the pane: "Cluster Queues" and "Queue Instances". The second screenshot shows the activation of a third tab named "Hosts"



Read the full article for details on how to activate these changes which are disabled by default ...

Details: How to enable these changes

Both enhancements are controlled by per-user ~/Qmon preference files. To customize the column widths in the Job Control pane, use and adjust the following settings: 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! job configuration settings
!! Qmon*job_form*columnWidths: nr of characters per column for
!!                                the first 6 cols
!! Qmon*job_form*visibleColumns: nr of visible columns (without scrollbar)
!!                               if the column sizes shall be bigger this can
!!                               be lowered to show only the first n cols and
!!                               the rest can be reached with the horizontal
!!                               scrollbar
!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Qmon*job_form*columnWidths:      12,8,10,10,7,16
Qmon*job_form*visibleColumns:    6


To enable the additional Host tab within the Cluster Queue pane, add the following details to your ~/Qmon preference file, changing the values from FALSE to TRUE:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! show the Host tab in Queue Configuration
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Qmon*showHostTab:  FALSE
Qmon*automaticUpdateHostTab: FALSE