diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase.rb b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase.rb
index 2fd23d9ba35..2de21111d13 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase.rb
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase.rb
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ end
 # Include classes definition
 require 'hbase/hbase'
 require 'hbase/admin'
+require 'hbase/taskmonitor'
 require 'hbase/table'
 require 'hbase/quotas'
 require 'hbase/replication_admin'
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/admin.rb b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/admin.rb
index 084e52b14e3..f2bca0e608b 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/admin.rb
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/admin.rb
@@ -952,6 +952,47 @@ module Hbase
       @admin.listTableSnapshots(tableNameRegex, snapshotNameRegex).to_a
     end
 
+    #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Returns a list of regionservers
+    def getRegionServers()
+      return @admin.getClusterStatus.getServers.map { |serverName| serverName }
+    end
+
+    #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Returns a list of servernames
+    def getServerNames(servers)
+      regionservers = getRegionServers()
+      servernames = []
+
+      if servers.length == 0
+        # if no servers were specified as arguments, get a list of all servers
+        servernames = regionservers
+      else
+        # Strings replace with ServerName objects in servers array
+        i = 0
+        while (i < servers.length)
+          server = servers[i]
+
+          if ServerName.isFullServerName(server)
+            servernames.push(ServerName.valueOf(server))
+          else
+            name_list = server.split(",")
+            j = 0
+            while (j < regionservers.length)
+              sn = regionservers[j]
+              if name_list[0] == sn.hostname and (name_list[1] == nil ? true : (name_list[1] == sn.port.to_s) )
+                servernames.push(sn)
+              end
+              j += 1
+            end
+          end
+          i += 1
+        end
+      end
+
+      return servernames
+    end 
+
     # Apply config specific to a table/column to its descriptor
     def set_descriptor_config(descriptor, config)
       raise(ArgumentError, "#{CONFIGURATION} must be a Hash type") unless config.kind_of?(Hash)
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/hbase.rb b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/hbase.rb
index a17ece2bbac..9c6946dd3d4 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/hbase.rb
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/hbase.rb
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ include Java
 
 require 'hbase/admin'
 require 'hbase/table'
+require 'hbase/taskmonitor'
 require 'hbase/quotas'
 require 'hbase/security'
 require 'hbase/visibility_labels'
@@ -47,6 +48,10 @@ module Hbase
       ::Hbase::Admin.new(@connection.getAdmin, formatter)
     end
 
+    def taskmonitor(formatter)
+      ::Hbase::TaskMonitor.new(configuration, formatter)
+    end
+
     # Create new one each time
     def table(table, shell)
       ::Hbase::Table.new(@connection.getTable(table), shell)
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/taskmonitor.rb b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/taskmonitor.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..df938488f40
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/hbase/taskmonitor.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+#
+# Copyright 2010 The Apache Software Foundation
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+include Java
+
+# Add the $HBASE_HOME/lib directory to the ruby load_path to load jackson
+if File.exists?(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "lib"))
+    $LOAD_PATH.unshift File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "lib")
+end
+
+module Hbase
+  class TaskMonitor
+    include HBaseConstants
+
+    #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Represents information reported by a server on a single MonitoredTask
+    class Task
+
+      def initialize(taskMap,host)
+
+        taskMap.each_pair do |k,v|
+          case k
+            when "statustimems"
+              @statustime = Time.at(v/1000)
+            when "status"
+              @status = v
+            when "starttimems"
+              @starttime = Time.at(v/1000)
+            when "description"
+              @description = v
+            when "state"
+              @state = v
+          end
+        end
+
+        @host = host
+
+      end
+
+      def statustime
+        # waiting IPC handlers often have statustime = -1, in this case return starttime
+        if @statustime > Time.at(-1)
+          return @statustime
+        end
+        return @starttime
+      end
+
+      attr_reader :host
+      attr_reader :status
+      attr_reader :starttime
+      attr_reader :description
+      attr_reader :state
+
+    end
+
+
+    def initialize(configuration, formatter)
+      @conf = configuration
+      @formatter = formatter
+      @conn = org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.ConnectionFactory.createConnection(@conf)
+      @admin = @conn.getAdmin()
+    end
+
+    #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Returns a filtered list of tasks on the given host
+    def tasksOnHost(filter,host)
+
+      java_import 'java.net.URL'
+      java_import 'org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper'
+
+      infoport = @admin.getClusterStatus().getLoad(host).getInfoServerPort().to_s
+
+      # Note: This condition use constants from hbase-server
+      #if (!@admin.getConfiguration().getBoolean(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.http.ServerConfigurationKeys::HBASE_SSL_ENABLED_KEY,
+      #  org.apache.hadoop.hbase.http.ServerConfigurationKeys::HBASE_SSL_ENABLED_DEFAULT))
+      #  schema = "http://"
+      #else
+      #  schema = "https://"
+      #end
+      schema = "http://"
+      url = schema + host.hostname + ":" + infoport + "/rs-status?format=json&filter=" + filter
+
+      json = URL.new(url)
+      mapper = ObjectMapper.new
+
+      # read and parse JSON
+      tasksArrayList = mapper.readValue(json,java.lang.Object.java_class)
+
+      # convert to an array of TaskMonitor::Task instances
+      tasks = Array.new
+      tasksArrayList.each do |t|
+        tasks.unshift Task.new(t,host)
+      end
+
+      return tasks
+
+    end
+
+    #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    # Prints a table of filtered tasks on requested hosts
+    def tasks(filter,hosts)
+
+      # put all tasks on all requested hosts in the same list
+      tasks = []
+      hosts.each do |host|
+        tasks.concat(tasksOnHost(filter,host))
+      end
+
+      puts("%d tasks as of: %s" % [tasks.size,Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")])
+
+      if tasks.size() == 0
+        puts("No " + filter + " tasks currently running.")
+      else
+
+        # determine table width
+        longestStatusWidth = 0
+        longestDescriptionWidth = 0
+        tasks.each do |t|
+          longestStatusWidth = [longestStatusWidth,t.status.length].max
+          longestDescriptionWidth = [longestDescriptionWidth,t.description.length].max
+        end
+
+        # set the maximum character width of each column, without padding
+        hostWidth = 15
+        startTimeWidth = 19
+        stateWidth = 8
+        descriptionWidth = [32,longestDescriptionWidth].min
+        statusWidth = [36,longestStatusWidth + 27].min
+
+        rowSeparator = "+" + "-" * (hostWidth + 2) +
+            "+" + "-" * (startTimeWidth + 2) +
+            "+" + "-" * (stateWidth + 2) +
+            "+" + "-" * (descriptionWidth + 2) +
+            "+" + "-" * (statusWidth + 2) + "+"
+
+        # print table header
+        cells = [setCellWidth("Host",hostWidth),
+              setCellWidth("Start Time",startTimeWidth),
+              setCellWidth("State",stateWidth),
+              setCellWidth("Description",descriptionWidth),
+              setCellWidth("Status",statusWidth)]
+
+        line = "| %s | %s | %s | %s | %s |" % cells
+
+        puts(rowSeparator)
+        puts(line)
+
+        # print table content
+        tasks.each do |t|
+
+          cells = [setCellWidth(t.host.hostname,hostWidth),
+              setCellWidth(t.starttime.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"),startTimeWidth),
+              setCellWidth(t.state,stateWidth),
+              setCellWidth(t.description,descriptionWidth),
+              setCellWidth("%s (since %d seconds ago)" %
+                           [t.status,Time.now - t.statustime], statusWidth)]
+
+          line = "| %s | %s | %s | %s | %s |" % cells
+
+          puts(rowSeparator)
+          puts(line)
+
+        end
+        puts(rowSeparator)
+
+      end
+
+    end
+
+    #---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    #
+    # Helper methods
+    #
+
+    # right-pad with spaces or truncate with ellipses to match passed width
+    def setCellWidth(cellContent,width)
+      numCharsTooShort = width-cellContent.length
+      if numCharsTooShort < 0
+        # cellContent is too long, so truncate
+        return cellContent[0,[width-3,0].max] + "." * [3,width].min
+      else
+        # cellContent is requested width or too short, so right-pad with zero or more spaces
+        return cellContent + " " * numCharsTooShort
+      end
+    end
+
+  end
+end
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell.rb b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell.rb
index 0490c78425f..c64d3b97cfc 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell.rb
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell.rb
@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ module Shell
       @hbase_admin ||= hbase.admin(formatter)
     end
 
+    def hbase_taskmonitor
+      @hbase_taskmonitor ||= hbase.taskmonitor(formatter)
+    end
+
     def hbase_table(name)
       hbase.table(name, self)
     end
@@ -243,6 +247,7 @@ Shell.load_command_group(
     version
     table_help
     whoami
+    processlist
   ]
 )
 
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands.rb b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands.rb
index b18063e66ab..851620cbc08 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands.rb
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands.rb
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ module Shell
         @shell.hbase_admin
       end
 
+      def taskmonitor
+        @shell.hbase_taskmonitor
+      end
+
       def table(name)
         @shell.hbase_table(name)
       end
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands/processlist.rb b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands/processlist.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5715f4b36e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/main/ruby/shell/commands/processlist.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+#
+# Copyright 2010 The Apache Software Foundation
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+module Shell
+  module Commands
+    class Processlist < Command
+      def help
+        return <<-EOF
+Show regionserver task list.
+
+  hbase> processlist
+  hbase> processlist 'all'
+  hbase> processlist 'general'
+  hbase> processlist 'handler'
+  hbase> processlist 'rpc'
+  hbase> processlist 'operation'
+  hbase> processlist 'all','host187.example.com'
+  hbase> processlist 'all','host187.example.com,16020'  
+  hbase> processlist 'all','host187.example.com,16020,1289493121758'
+
+EOF
+      end
+
+      def command(*args)
+        
+        if ['all','general','handler','rpc','operation'].include? args[0]
+          # if the first argument is a valid filter specifier, use it as such
+          filter = args[0]
+          hosts = args[1,args.length]
+        else
+          # otherwise, treat all arguments as host addresses by default
+          filter = 'general'
+          hosts = args
+        end
+        
+        hosts = admin.getServerNames(hosts)
+
+        if hosts == nil
+          puts "No regionservers available."
+        else
+          taskmonitor.tasks(filter,hosts)
+        end
+        
+      end
+
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AbstractTestShell.java b/hbase-shell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AbstractTestShell.java
index 24d07eda530..f66bb6ba667 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AbstractTestShell.java
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/AbstractTestShell.java
@@ -43,8 +43,11 @@ public abstract class AbstractTestShell {
     TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setInt(HConstants.HBASE_CLIENT_RETRIES_NUMBER, 6);
     TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setBoolean(CoprocessorHost.ABORT_ON_ERROR_KEY, false);
     TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setInt("hfile.format.version", 3);
+
+    //NOTE: Below Settings are disabled for taskmonitor_test
     TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setInt(HConstants.MASTER_INFO_PORT, -1);
-    TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setInt(HConstants.REGIONSERVER_INFO_PORT, -1);
+    TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setInt(HConstants.REGIONSERVER_INFO_PORT, 0);
+    TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration().setBoolean(HConstants.REGIONSERVER_INFO_PORT_AUTO, true);
     // Security setup configuration
     SecureTestUtil.enableSecurity(TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration());
     VisibilityTestUtil.enableVisiblityLabels(TEST_UTIL.getConfiguration());
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/test/ruby/hbase/taskmonitor_test.rb b/hbase-shell/src/test/ruby/hbase/taskmonitor_test.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..78776d84349
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/test/ruby/hbase/taskmonitor_test.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+require 'hbase'
+
+module Hbase
+  class TaskMonitorTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
+    include TestHelpers
+    def setup
+      setup_hbase
+    end
+
+    define_test "tasksOnHost should return tasks list" do
+      filter = 'all'
+      hosts = admin.getRegionServers()
+      hosts.each do |host|
+        tasks = taskmonitor.tasksOnHost(filter,host)
+        assert(tasks.length > 0)
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/hbase-shell/src/test/ruby/test_helper.rb b/hbase-shell/src/test/ruby/test_helper.rb
index 67bbb14fe60..31144153ab0 100644
--- a/hbase-shell/src/test/ruby/test_helper.rb
+++ b/hbase-shell/src/test/ruby/test_helper.rb
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ module Hbase
       @shell.hbase_admin
     end
 
+    def taskmonitor
+      @shell.hbase_taskmonitor
+    end
+
     def security_admin
       @shell.hbase_security_admin
     end