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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.
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) [Linux-only]batinfo
(for battery monitoring support) [Linux-only]pysnmp
(for SNMP support)
Just enter the following command line:
curl -L http://bit.ly/glances | /bin/bash
Note: Only supported on some GNU/Linux distributions. If you want to support others distribs, please contribute to glancesautoinstall.
Glances is on PyPI. By using PyPI, you are sure to have the latest stable version.
To install, simply use pip:
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:
pip install --upgrade Glances
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.
To install the binary package:
# pkg_add -r py27-glances
Using pkgng:
# pkg install py27-glances
To install Glances from ports:
# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/py-glances/
# make install clean
OS X users can install Glances using Homebrew or MacPorts.
$ brew install python
$ pip install Glances
$ sudo port install glances
- 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/
To install Glances version X.Y from source:
$ 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.
You can install Glances using Puppet: https://github.com/rverchere/puppet-glances
For the standalone mode, just run:
$ glances
For the Web server mode, run:
$ glances -w
and enter the URL http://<ip>:61208
in your favorite web browser.
For the client/server mode, run:
$ glances -s
on the server side and run:
$ glances -c <ip>
on the client one.
And RTFM, always.
For complete documentation see glances-doc.
If you have any question (after RTFM !), please post it on the official Q&A forum.
Nicolas Hennion (@nicolargo) <[email protected]>
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for more details.