6.1 Secure Shell (SSH) Browser (Revision #7)

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.

To begin, right click on a registered SSH server and select "Connect".

After a successful connection, the server icon should display a tree beneath it. Click on one of the + icons to expand the nodes.

The OS node expands to display operating system details such as:

• Operating System:
• Kernel Name:
• Kernel Release:
• Kernel Version:
• Machine Hardware Name:
• Version Signature:

The CPUs node expands to display each core of a processor as a separate node, labelebed cpu0, cpu1, cpu2 etc. The unnumbered node at the top of the CPUs tree displays the combined statistics for all cores.

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:

The File Systems node expands to display information on all mounted volumes

The Network Interfaces node expands to display a node for each network interface with statistics on each

If the Detail View is enabled further information is displayed in the Details Pane.