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Glances is a free (LGPL) cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool
which aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space, ideally
-to fit in a classical 80x24 terminal, or larger for additional data: in fact
-it can adapt dynamically the displayed information depending on the terminal
-size.
+to fit in a classical 80x24 terminal, or larger for additional data as it can
+adapt the displayed information dynamically, depending on the terminal size.
-This tool can also work in client/server mode. Remote monitoring can be
-done via terminal or web interface.
+This tool can also work in client/server mode. Remote monitoring can be done
+via terminal or web interface.
Glances is written in Python and uses the psutil library to fetch statistical
values from key elements, like CPU, load average, memory, network, disks,
@@ -13,20 +12,19 @@ file systems, processes, etc.
OPTIONAL DEPENDENCIES
-Available on SBo: hddtemp (HHD temperature monitoring support), py3sensors
-(HW monitoring support), batinfo (battery monitoring support), bottle (Web
-server mode), pymdstat (RAID support), ysnmp (SNMP support), netifaces (auto
-discoverer mode), statsd (StatsD export module), matplotlib (generation of
-graphs from history data) and python3.
+Available on SBo: batinfo (battery monitoring support), bottle (Web server
+mode), hddtemp (HHD temperature monitoring support), matplotlib (generation
+of graphs from history data), netifaces (auto discoverer mode), py3sensors
+(HW monitoring support), pymdstat (RAID support), python3, statsd (StatsD
+export module), ysnmp (SNMP support).
-Not available on SBo: influxdb (InfluxDB export module), pystache (action
-script feature), docker-py (Docker monitoring support), zeroconf (auto
-discoverer mode).
+Not available on SBo: docker-py (Docker monitoring support), influxdb (InfluxDB
+export module), pika (RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ export module), pystache (action script
+feature), zeroconf (auto discoverer mode).
NOTES
-1) When launching Glances in a terminal with a bright background, the
-option '--theme-white' is recommended.
+1) When launching Glances in a terminal with a bright background, the option
+'--theme-white' is recommended.
-2) For the optional auto discoverer mode, both zeroconf and netifaces
-are needed.
+2) For optional auto discoverer mode, both zeroconf and netifaces are needed.