Glances -- Eye on your system

Description

Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tools for both GNU/Linux and BSD.

Glances uses the libstatgrab library to get information from your system. Glances is developed in Python and uses the python-statgrab lib.

Installation

Glances use a standard GNU style installer:

$ tar zxvf glances-v1.0.tar.gz
$ cd glances
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Pre-requisites:

Python 2.6+ (not tested with Python 3)
python-statgrab 0.5+ (did not work with python-statgrab 0.5)

Notes: The Debian Squeeze repos only include the python-statgrab 0.4. You had to install the version 0.5 using the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get install libstatgrab-dev
$ wget http://ftp.uk.i-scream.org/sites/ftp.i-scream.org/pub/i-scream/pystatgrab/pystatgrab-0.5.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf pystatgrab-0.5.tar.gz
$ cd pystatgrab-0.5/
$ ./setup.py build
$ sudo ./setup.py install

Running

Easy:

$ glances.py

User guide

By default, stats are refrsh every second, to change this setting, you can use the -t option. For exemple to set the refrech rate to 5 seconds:

$ glances.py -t 5

Importants stats are colored:

GREEN: stat counter is < 50%
BLUE: stat counter is > 50% and < 70%
MAGENTA: stat counter is > 70% and < 90%
RED: stat counter is > 90%

When Glances is running, you can press:

'a' to set the automatic mode. The process list is sorted automatically

If CPU > 70%, sort by process CPU consomption

If MEM > 70%, sort by process size
'c' the processes list is sorted by CPU consomption
'm' the processes list is sorted by process size
'q' Exit

Limitation

The current version of the python-statgrab API can not retrieve the file system statistics. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libstatgrab/+bug/886783

Todo

You are welcome to contribute to this software.

Packaging for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat, BSD...
Check the needed Python library in the configure.ac
Add file system stats when the python-statgrab is corrected
Add a user guide window

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