Active Interface¶

You can cycle in realtime through all available active interfaces by simply left-clicking on the interface name gadget on the upperleft corner of WMND or use the mouse wheel anywhere.

The 'lo' interface is an exception, 'lo' only works when invoked from the commandline (wmnd -I lo), lo was mainly built in for testing purposes.

Device Name¶

By default, WMND show device name in short term of four characters, for example, the ippp0 will be displayed as ipp0. You can toggle the device name between short and long by right-click on it.

Graphic Mode¶

Left-click on the main graphic area to cycle the graphic mode.

Max Meter¶

Left-click to toggle the history max or screen max. The max mode also affects the main graph scale. The default is screen max when WMND is startup. Right-click to hide or show. Middle-click to zoom the statistics in a separated trend window. You can cycle the active interface and middle-click again to monitor multiple interfaces concurrently.

Byte/Packet Mode¶

Left-click on the letter gadgeted on the right-top corner can switch between the Byte or Packet counter mode. "B" for byte, "p" for packet. The current mode affects the external trend window too.

User Script¶

Click on the bottom rate meter can invoke the user command defined in resource file .wmndrc.

Dragging WMND¶

Be sure to drag WMND on it's outer edges, it's a bit picky due to the large gfx pixmap it keeps. You can also use a keyboard and mouse shortcut (perhaps ALT+left-click) in your window manager to drag it around.

Drivers¶

solaris_fpppd

Solaris/Linux ppp streams driver. Gathers device data from /dev/ppp. Uses code from the Solaris/Linux pppd server and it should work wherever Solaris/Linux pppd works.

linux_proc

Reads data from the linux proc(5) virtual filesystem.

freebsd_sysctl

Uses the MIB to gather device statistics under FreeBSD (offline devices handling is buggy, support needed!)

netbsd_ioctl

Read statistics through the NetBSD ioctl call.

solaris_kstat

Gather all devices of class net from the kstat library.

irix_pcp

Reads metrics from the IRIX Performance Co-Pilot daemon. Interface format:

[host@]interface

generic_snmp

Query an IF-MIB capable snmp server for gathering interface statistics. By default generic_snmp connects to localhost and uses the public community. You can change the community/host/interface to monitor by using the -I flag:

[community@]host[:interface]

You must specify an interface number, not an interface name. If the interface number is 0, or there's no interface specification, WMND will display all available interfaces. By default the community name is "public". Beware that by specifying an snmp v1 community name on a command line can be dangerous on an multiuser platform. Please read the README file on the distribution for more details.

testing_dummy

This is the "last resort" driver, it shows a null device useful only to make WMND don't exit when all other drivers failed. Can be enhanced to display something at compile time.