The purpose of the SSH Browser is to help you visualize and maintain your SSH Servers. The SSH Browser makes use of procfs (or the proc filesystem), a special filesystem in UNIX-like operating systems that presents information about processes and other system information in a hierarchical file-like structure, providing a more convenient and standardized method for dynamically accessing process data held in the kernel than traditional tracing methods or direct access to kernel memory. Typically, it is mapped to a mount point named /proc at boot time. You can quickly view server version information, including: OS, CPUs, Memory, Disks, File Systems, Network Interfaces and the different Users. Currently this feature is not supported in MAC OSX, but would be added in a future release. After registering SSH Servers in the Servers Browser, details about those servers can be displayed by double clicking them or right clicking and choosing "Connect". A tree expands giving details on OS, CPUs, Memory, Disks, File Systems, Network Interfaces and Users. Each of these can be expanded as a tree to display more details.
Connecting and Browsing SSH Servers
| Connect | Connected | Detail View | Right Click View Details | Right Click Disconnect |
To begin, double click on a successfully registered SSH Server or right click and select "Connect".
The server icon should display a tree of folders beneath it. Either double click on each icon, or click the + next to them to expand the folder trees. Right clicking on a node within an expanded folder and selecting View Details provides more information than will display in the tree alone and shows those details in a popup window. It's also possible to see these details by enabling the Details View, clicking on a node and looking at the Details Pane.
Operating System (OS)
| Operating System (OS) |
The OS node expands to display operating system details such as:
- Operating System:
- Kernel Name:
- Kernel Release:
- Kernel Version:
- Machine Hardware Name:
- Version Signature:
CPUs
| CPUs |
The CPUs node expands to display each core of a processor as a separate node, labeled cpu0, cpu1, cpu2, cpu3 etc. The unnumbered node at the top of the CPUs tree displays the combined statistics for all cores.
Memory
| Memory |
The Memory node expands to display RAM, Buffer and Swap Space statistics including:
- Memory Total:
- Memory Free:
- Memory Used:
- Memory Buffers:
- Memory Cached:
- Memory User Used:
- Swap Space Total:
- Swap Space Free:
- Swap Space Used:
File Systems
| File Systems |
The File Systems node expands to display information on all mounted volumes
Disks
| Disks |
The Disks node expands to display information on each physical disk in the system.
Network Interfaces
| Network Interfaces |
The Network Interfaces node expands to display a node for each network interface with statistics on each.
Users
| Users |
The Users node expands to display statistics on each user with an account on the system, and includes home directory paths.