[erlang-questions] [ANN] ntop - A top-like tool for monitoring Erlang nodes

[Mazen Harake]

  I decided to name it "entop" :)

http://mazenharake.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/renaming-ntop-to-entop/

/Mazen

On 16/08/2010 10:21, Mazen Harake wrote:
>  Thanks for the feedback; You are both right. I'll consider erltop but 
> I want to avoid "erl" in the name because I think it is corny :P
> I'll give it a day to think about it :)
>
> Regarding the wxErlang UI; it would defeat the purpose of why I 
> created this. The main point of the tools I create is that they are to 
> be used in an environment where you only have shell access and no GUI 
> environment. I'm adressing the scenario of when you ssh to the server 
> (or ssh to a gateway then ssh to another gateway then ssh to the 
> server that hosts the server; it is pretty common :)) and run "ntop" 
> there and you get the information in your terminal.
>
> It would be, however, cool if someone decided to rip out the viewer 
> and replace it with a wxErlang frontend instead; that is why it is 
> free software :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> /Mazen
>
> On 16/08/2010 03:15, Jordan Wilberding wrote:
>> I agree, it is unwise to use 'ntop', it is a very prominent program.
>>
>> I am horrible at naming, but maybe just go with erltop? Your only 
>> competition there is a sample program from wxErlang.
>>
>> With that said, great program. It might even be worth adapting 
>> wxErlang's erltop GUI for your code, so you can have a gui version too.
>>
>> JW
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Scott Brooks <scott@REDACTED 
>> <mailto:scott@REDACTED>> wrote:
>>
>>     Looks like a great tool, my only suggestion is that there is already
>>     an ntop out there
>>     http://www.ntop.org/
>>
>>     If you refer to it as Node Top everywhere then that may help people
>>     trying to google for it, although googing for "ntop erlang" should
>>     work quite well.
>>
>>     Scott Brooks
>>
>>     On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Mazen Harake
>> <mazen.harake@REDACTED
>> <mailto:mazen.harake@REDACTED>> wrote:
>> >  Hi all,
>> > I've created a top-like tool which shows processes and their
>>     information
>> > given an Erlang node. It is like "etop" but without the very
>>     annoying
>> > scrolling and it is used the same way as top.
>> >
>> > Read more about it here (including a nice screenshot ;)):
>> > Blog:
>> >
>>     
>> http://mazenharake.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/announcing-ntop-a-top-like-monitoring-tool-for-erlang-nodes/
>> > GitHub: http://github.com/mazenharake/ntop
>> >
>> > Please give me feedback if you have any ideas/suggestions/rants
>>     or what ever
>> > if you feel like it!
>> >
>> > /Mazen
>> >
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