ros-system-monitor

Synopsis

System monitoring tools for ROS.

Author(s): Willow Garage, Inc., Jerome Maye, Ralf Kaestner License: BSD License (BSD) Operating system(s): Debian-based Linux

Description

This project provides system monitoring tools for ROS in the form of the following ROS nodes:

• CPU monitor
• HDD monitor
• Memory monitor
• Network monitor
• NTP monitor

Each node publishes ROS diagnostics which can conveniently be visualized in the runtime monitor.

Note than this fork is made specifically for our robot Sara, for the kinetic ros distribution.

Installation

Building from source

This project may be built using the CMake build system with an open-source macro extension called ReMake.

Installing build dependencies

The build dependencies of this project are available from the standard package repositories of recent Ubuntu and ROS releases. To install them, simply use the command

sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-rospy ros-kinetic-message-generation ros-kinetic-std-msgs ros-kinetic-diagnostic-msgs sysstat

Cloning this repository on the src folder

• Switch into the src directory of your ros workspace

cd ~/ros_ws/src/

• Cloning repository

git clone http://github.com/WalkingMachine/ros-system-monitor.git

Building with CMake

• Switch into the package directory

  cd ~/ros_ws/src/ros-system-monitor
  

• Configure the build

  cmake -DROS_DISTRIBUTION=kinetic ~/ros_ws/src/ros-system-monitor
  

• Building the package

  sudo make
  

• If you intend to install the project, call

  sudo make install