Glances
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Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python.
connections
installation on Linux
sudo apt-get install glances
as a System Service
nano /etc/systemd/system/glancesweb.service
glancesweb.service → change User to your current user
[Unit]
Description = Glances in Web Server Mode
After = network.target
[Service]
User = spearmint
ExecStart = /usr/bin/glances -w -t 5
[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target
[Unit]
Description = Glances in Web Server Mode
After = network.target
[Service]
User = pi4
ExecStart = /usr/local/bin/glances -w -t 5
[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target
enable and test
sudo systemctl enable glancesweb.service
sudo systemctl start glancesweb.service
sudo systemctl status glancesweb.service
installation on Windows
install .exe at Download Python | Python.org
run pip install glances & pip install bottle
Home Assistant Addons Glances to Influxdb
helpful links
How to Use Glances to Monitor System On Ubuntu (maketecheasier.com)
[link](https://www.tecmint.com/glances-monitor-remote-linux-in-web-server-mode/#:~:text=Run Glances in Web Server Mode as a,start and view its status as follows. )
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The Debian apt package breaks the webpage (github issue tells a tale ofminified #js and open source being obfuscated)
Here is a one-liner code that
- that reads the current apt glances version
- grabs the corresponding source code from github
- copies to local library files
sudo sh -c 'wget -O - https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/archive/refs/tags/v$(glances -V|cut -zd" " -f2|tr -d v).tar.gz | tar -xz -C /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/glances/outputs/static/ --strip-components=4 --wildcards glances-*/glances/outputs/static/public/'