glances/README.rst

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Glances - An eye on your system
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**Glances** is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool written in Python.

It uses the `psutil`_ library to get information from your system.

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Requirements
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- ``python >= 2.6`` (tested with version 2.6, 2.7, 3.3, 3.4)
- ``psutil >= 2.0.0``
- ``setuptools``

Optional dependencies:

- ``bottle`` (for Web Server mode)
- ``py3sensors`` (for hardware monitoring support) [Linux-only]
- ``hddtemp`` (for HDD temperature monitoring support)
- ``batinfo`` (for battery monitoring support) [Linux-only]

Installation
============

PyPI: The simple way
--------------------

Glances is on `PyPI`_. By using Pypi, you are sure to have the latest stable version.

To install, simply use `pip`_:

.. code-block:: console

    pip install Glances

*Note*: Python headers are required to install PSutil. For example,
on Debian/Ubuntu you need to install first the *python-dev* package.

To upgrade Glances to the latest version:

.. code-block:: console

    pip install --upgrade Glances

GNU/Linux
---------

At the moment, packages exist for the following GNU/Linux distributions:

- Arch Linux
- Debian (Testing/Sid)
- Fedora/CentOS/RHEL
- Gentoo
- Slackware
- Ubuntu (13.04+)
- Void Linux

So you should be able to install it using your favorite package manager.

FreeBSD
-------

To install the binary package:

.. code-block:: console

    # pkg_add -r py27-glances

Using pkgng:

.. code-block:: console

    # pkg install py27-glances

To install Glances from ports:

.. code-block:: console

    # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/py-glances/
    # make install clean

OS X
----

OS X users can install Glances using `Homebrew`_ or `MacPorts`_.

Homebrew
````````

.. code-block:: console

    $ brew install python
    $ pip install Glances

MacPorts
````````

.. code-block:: console

    $ sudo port install glances

Windows
-------

Glances proposes a Windows client based on the `colorconsole`_ Python library.

To install Glances on Windows OS, you have to follow these steps:

- Install Python for Windows: http://www.python.org/getit/
- Install the psutil library: https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=psutil#downloads
- Install the colorconsole library: http://code.google.com/p/colorconsole/downloads/list
- Download Glances from here: http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/

Source
------

To install Glances version X.Y from source:

.. code-block:: console

    $ curl -L https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/archive/vX.Y.tar.gz -o glances-X.Y.tar.gz
    $ tar -zxvf glances-*.tar.gz
    $ cd glances-*
    # python setup.py install

*Note*: Python headers are required to install psutil. For example,
on Debian/Ubuntu you need to install first the *python-dev* package.

Puppet
------

You can install Glances using `Puppet`_: https://github.com/rverchere/puppet-glances

Usage
=====

For the standalone mode, just run:

.. code-block:: console

    $ glances


For the Web server mode, run:

.. code-block:: console

    $ glances -w

and enter the URL http://<ip>:61208 in your favorite Web Browser.

For the client/server mode, run:

.. code-block:: console

    $ glances -s

on the server side and run:

.. code-block:: console

    $ glances -c <ip>

on the client one.

And RTFM, always.

Documentation
=============

For complete documentation see `glances-doc`_.

Author
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Nicolas Hennion (@nicolargo) <nicolas@nicolargo.com>

License
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LGPL. See ``COPYING`` for more details.

.. _psutil: https://code.google.com/p/psutil/
.. _@nicolargo: https://twitter.com/nicolargo
.. _@glances_system: https://twitter.com/glances_system
.. _PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi
.. _pip: http://www.pip-installer.org/
.. _Homebrew: http://brew.sh/
.. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/
.. _Glances-1.7.2-win32.msi: http://glances.s3.amazonaws.com/Glances-1.7.2-win32.msi
.. _colorconsole: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorconsole
.. _Puppet: https://puppetlabs.com/puppet/what-is-puppet/
.. _glances-doc: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/blob/master/docs/glances-doc.rst