| sinfod - a monitoring tool for networked computers | 
| sinfod [-F] [-q] [-V] [-b #.#.#.#] [-c] [-n card ] [ -N nicevalue ] [ -m marker ] [ -i processname ] [-s][-W] | 
| sinfod distributes system information to other sinfods on your local network. These Information include the system load, memory utilization and the ‘TOP-5’ processes on every machine. It’s main advantage is, that these informations are broadcasted using the udp(7) protocol. If each node broadcasts it’s information in a cooperative manner, the network load is O(N), where N is the number of nodes in your network. Other systems to monitor your cluster load (e.g. rup(1) ) are using a polling scheme where every node has to ask every other node for the system information: In that case the network load is O(N**2). The task of sinfod is to broadcast the relevant information for the local node and to collect broadcasts from other nodes. Other programs ( sinfo(1) ) can get access to this information via a simple tcp(7) connection that normally is routed through the local loopback interface. | 
| -F/--foreground | 
| Unlike normal operation, sinfod will not detach from the terminal when given this option. Some debugging informations will be visible. | 
| -q/--quiet | 
| Start quietly - for init scripts. | 
| -V/--version | 
| Print the version number and exit. | 
| -b #.#.#.#/--bcastaddress=#.#.#.# | 
| Set the broadcast address of the sinfod. Default is 255.255.255.255. In you want to run sinfod without a network card "−b 127.0.0.1" may be necessary. | 
| -c/--cmdline | 
| Broadcast the full command line of a process instead of the command only. | 
| -m marker/--marker=marker | 
| Mark the machine with a name. e.g. laboratory, pool or cluster. | 
| -i/--ignore <process> | 
| Don’t broadcast any information on <process> ; --ignore may be set multiple times. | 
| -t/--top <count> | 
| Broadcast information on the top <count> processes; default: 5 | 
| -n card/--networkcard=card | 
| Set the name of the network card whose informations will be broadcasted. (e.g. eth0). Default is the network card that saw the most traffic at the start of sinfod. | 
| -N nicevalue/--nice=nicevalue | 
| Set the priority of this demon to nicevalue. Default is 15. | 
| -s/--spymode | 
| Deactivate the TCP interface and the collection of received packets. The demon starts in a broadcast-only mode. | 
| -W/--watchdog | 
| Start with simple watchdog. | 
| Juergen Rinas <jrinas@gmx.de> | 
| sinfo(1),sshallsinfo(1), |