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. ![screenshot](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/raw/master/screenshot.png) ## 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