How to Monitor OpenVZ Containers with VZTOP VEID Mode

By Vipin Raj / April 24, 2025

VZTOP is an utility to check the process usage of the virtual nodes. It comes along with vzprocps package and can be downloaded from http://download.openvz.org/contrib/utils/.

Installation:

rpm -ivh http://download.openvz.org/contrib/utils/vzprocps-2.0.11-6.13.swsoft.i386.rpm

The binary name is vztop. You can run vztop , followed by Shift + E to turn ON the VEID mode. This will show the unique ID’s of the virtual nodes with the top processes.

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