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How to find if nodes are running on the same machine?

asked 2018-03-15 04:43:52 -0600

zcm

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Hello, everyone! I see ROS is a real distributed system, all nodes use node_name and node_uri to identify itself. Now I need to write a monitor process, to monitor all nodes on the same machine.

From http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Slave_API , I can use getPid( ) to get the PID of that node server. But how can I check if that node is running on the same machine ? Is there a standard way of doing this ? Thanks!

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answered 2018-03-15 05:09:01 -0600

gvdhoorn
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rosnode machine will list the machines (ie: hosts) that the master knows about, and rosnode machine <hostname> will list all nodes that run on a particular machine (ie: hostname).

As for how to do this with the Master API, take a look at how rosnode does this internally, specifically the get_machines_by_nodes() and get_nodes_by_machine() methods (here).

If you're going to be using this often, consider that these methods incur quite some overhead:

This is a very costly procedure as it must do N lookups with the Master, where N is the number of nodes.

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Thanks! I think Master get this hostname from every node's node_uri, if the hostname is unique for each machine, and each machine only use one hostname, then I think this approach is correct.

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