brorfred / chalmers

Process Control System

Superintendent Chalmers

Chalmers is an application that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on any operating system (Posix and Win32 included)

Quickstart

Running chalmers on system boot

chalmers install-service

Adding a Program

chalmers run -- sleep 10

Check the program status

chalmers list

Chalmers commands

Command	Description
Meta Management
install-service	Install chalmers as a service
uninstall-service	Uninstall chalmers as a service
service-status	Check the status of the service
manager	Manage Chalmers programs
Process Control
run	Manage a command to run
start	Start a program
restart	Restart a program
stop	Stop running a command
pause	Pause program (don't run on system boot)
unpause	Unpause program (run on system boot)
remove	Remove a program definition from chalmers
Reporting
list	List registered programs
show	Show the definition file content
log	Show program output
Updating
set	Set a variable in the program definition
edit	Edit a service definition

A comparison with other utilities

Supervisord supervisord.org

• Supervisord does not run on windows, Chalmers runs on all platforms.
• Supervisord does not start at system boot. Chalmers does this for all platforms with chalmers install-service.
• Managing Supervisord config files can be a pain. Chalmers allows command line controll of the addition and removal of programs with chalmers run|start|stop|remove

Forever github.com/nodejitsu/forever

• Forever only supports nodejs applications
• Forever does not start at system boot. Chalmers does this for all platforms with chalmers install-service.
• Forever does have windows support, but it can not daemoninze windows processes.

Honcho honcho.readthedocs.org

• Currently chalmers does not support Procfile-based applications (coming soon)

Posix init.d and Windows services

• These utilities require admin privleges to run. Chalmers does not
• These utilities require custom wrappers around the scripts that you may need to run. Chalmers allows command line controll of the addition and removal of programs with chalmers run|start|stop|remove