FirstClass Health Monitor |
I have created a GUI interface to FCPUTIL that I am calling fc Health Monitor.It is a cross platform tool (Mac and Windows) that interacts with the FCPUTIL executable to fetch the current values of real-time counters maintained by the server, such as the number of active sessions, task load, the number of files open, etc.
You can use fc Health Monitor to monitor the health of your FirstClass Server
All FCPUTIL requires is a account on the target server that has Monitor Server permission so it can fetch the data.
With fc Health Monitor, you can create configuration sets and schedule it to run for a specific period of time at a specified polling interval.
The data is gathered and provides a graphical representation of the results.
You can view a video overview and download the compressed archive from one of the links below.
I recommend that you spend less than 10 minutes to view the videos as I do not have any written documentation and this can save you some time.
In each archive, I have included the FCPUTIL application and its corresponding files. These must be in the same folder as fc Health Monitor as I use a relative path to execute a shell command to poll the server.
Updates since Video tutorials and original release:
V 1.3 - June 7/2008
Added new "Check for Updates" in the help menu
V 1.2.1 - June 6/2008
Set limit of selected switches to the maxium of 64 (61 selected plus 3 defaults that are always chosen)
V 1.2
- Documentation Clarification
The fcputil account does not need to be an admin account. All it needs is the "Monitor Server" permission
Escape possible special characters (like space, ][}{'*& etc) in possible path to FCPUTIL for OS X installs
Added 
to load in and save results sets.
Note: The results are saved by default into a folder named "HM Results" inside the fc Health Monitor folder. If you download the zipped files and just extract the executable, make sure you also create an HM Results folder.