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Title: Glances: A monitoring tool for Linux systems
Post by: jominj on December 28, 2013, 08:36:48 pm

Glances is a free (LGPL) cross-platform curses-based monitoring tool which aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space, ideally to fit in a classical 80x24 terminal or higher to have additionnal information. Glances can adapt dynamically the displayed information depending on the terminal size. It can also work in a client/server mode for remote monitoring.

Install glances tool using the command

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# yum -y install glances
Basic Syntax is as follows::

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# glances
# glances [options]
Use the following hot keys to find tune your output:
   

• a Sort processes automatically.
• c Sort processes by CPU%.
• m Sort processes by MEM%.
• p Sort processes by name.
• i Sort processes by I/O rate.
• d Show/hide disk I/O stats.
• f Show/hide file system stats.
• n Show/hide network stats.
• s Show/hide sensors stats.
• y Show/hide hddtemp stats.
• l Show/hide logs.
• b Bytes or bits for network I/O.
• w Delete warning logs.
• x Delete warning and critical logs.
• 1 Global CPU or per-CPU stats.
• t View network I/O as combination.
• u - View cumulative network I/O.

On server type the following command to bind server to the given IPv4/IPv6 address or hostname:

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# glances -B @IP|host
# glances -B IP
# glances -B www.host.com
From your desktop client such as OSX/FreeBSD/Linux based system type the following command to connect to a Glances server by IPv4/IPv6 address or hostname:

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# glances -c @IP|host
# glances -c IP
# glances -c www.host.com