Monitor your Debian/Ubuntu System with saidar
Posted by Admin on December 11th, 2006
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saidar utilizes libstatgrab library. libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it’s run. It’s written in C and presents a selection of useful interfaces which can be used to access key system statistics. The current list of statistics includes CPU usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, process counts, network traffic, disk I/O, and more.
The current list of platforms is Solaris 2.x, Linux 2.2/2.4/2.6, FreeBSD 4.x/5.x, NetBSD 1.6.x, OpenBSD 3.x, DragonFly BSD 1.0, HP-UX, and Cygwin. The aim is to extend this to include as many operating systems as possible.
Install Saidar in ubuntu
sudo apt-get install saidar
Install Saidar in Debian
#apt-get install saidar
This will complete the installation
saidar syntax
saidar [-d delay] [-v] [-h]
If you want to use this application you can just type the following command
saidar
Now you should see the following screen which includes system statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory, swap,
network I/O and disks I/O along with their free space.
If you want to know more information and available options check saidar man page
December 13th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Nice. I had never seen this tool before. While “top” is great for finding particularly pesky processes and has a few features for overall system monitoring, this one looks like a much better tool for overall system monitoring, especially I/O, which is often the bottleneck.
Thanks!
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 am
Great tool. thx. By the way I’ve found a typo. Please check the link to man page
Greetings from Russia!
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:54 am
thank you i have updated the man page link
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:47 am
You can also produce colour output by using the “-c” switch; for example in the following command syntax:
sairdar -c -d 1