Feature request: make the central client UI configurable (example: GPU status)

[cih9088]

central client feature in glances is very useful for me, I guess not only me, to monitor several servers at one go.
However it would be much useful if there were any options to show how many GPUs are not running or status of each GPUs for machine learning researchers or engineers.
As far as I know, no options for central client for now that is no way to customising it.
Thought?

[nicolargo]

Hi @cih9088 !

For the moment, only majors stats (CPU/RAM) are available in the client central view. Your proposal to make it "configurable" is very interesting. Have to find a way to make it nice, not only for GPU.

If you have some requirements please let me know.

Nicolas

[jeffkeller87]

For me, I would like to be able to see temperature in the client central view. This stat (and others) is tricky because there could be more than one sensor for a given host and different hosts may have different sensor labels (e.g., Tctl, Tdie, Composite, etc.)

[nicolargo]

Hi @cih9088 / @jeffkeller87

on the develop branch, a first implementation of the feature you request 2 years ago...

Configuration:

[serverlist]
# Define columns (comma separated list of <plugin>:<field>:(<key>)) to grab/display
# Default is: system:hr_name,load:min5,cpu:total,mem:percent
# You can also add stats with key, like sensors:value:Ambient (key is case sensitive)
columns=system:hr_name,load:min5,cpu:total,mem:percent,memswap:percent:sensors:value:Ambient 

Result:

Can you test it on your side ?

[jeffkeller87]

In the simple case where I add a single sensor value to the [serverlist] config section, this works well. Note that there is a typo in your example configuration. This is what I used:

[serverlist]
# comma instead of colon between percent and sensors
columns=system:hr_name,load:min5,cpu:total,mem:percent,memswap:percent,sensors:value:Tctl

I was expecting to be able to add multiple sensor values, but this does not work:

[serverlist]
columns=system:hr_name,load:min5,cpu:total,mem:percent,memswap:percent,sensors:value:Tctl,sensors:value:Composite

Only a single SENSORS column shows in the central client view with values for the second configuration (Composite). It would be nice if they were both displayed, differentiated with the sensor label in the central client view. E.g., SENSORS.TCTL and SENSORS.COMPOSITE.

This gets particularly confusing when you try this where one or more sensors is not present on one or more servers. The SENSORS column gets filled with the last non-missing value. In this screenshot, the battery percentage from one server (BAT BAT0) is shown in the same column as CPU control temperature (Tctl).

[nicolargo]

@jeffkeller87 ok, feature with multiple keys on a same plugin is implemented in the develop branch.

[jeffkeller87]

Looks great! I will try to test this weekend.

[jeffkeller87]

@nicolargo I found a labeling issue in the central client display when a sensor label contains an underscore. The iwlwifi_1 0 sensor is displayed as 1 0 (see image). But otherwise, it is working as I expected. Thanks for adding this feature!

[nicolargo]

Thanks @jeffkeller87 i will correct the issue in the last version.

Thanks for all your remarks regarding the feature.

See you.