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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. It can
adapt the displayed information dynamically, depending on the terminal size.
A client/server mode is also available and remote monitoring can be done via
terminal or a 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, file
systems, processes, etc.

OPTIONAL DEPENDENCIES

* Available on SBo:
batinfo (for battery monitoring support)
bottle (for web server mode)
couchdb (for CouchDB export module)
docker (for Docker monitoring support)
elasticsearch (for Elastic Search export module)
hddtemp (for HDD temperature monitoring support)
matplotlib (for graphical/chart support)
netifaces (for IP plugin)
py-cpuinfo (for Quicklook CPU info module)
pymdstat (for RAID support)
python-requests (for Ports plugin)
python-scandir (for Folders plugin)
statsd (for StatsD export module)
pysnmp (for SNMP support)
pyzmq (for ZeroMQ export module)

* Not available on SBo:
bernhard (for Riemann export module)
cassandra-driver (for Cassandra export module)
influxdb (for InfluxDB export module)
nvidia-ml-py (for GPU plugin)
pika (for RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ export module)
potsdb (for OpenTSDB export module)
pystache (for action scripting)
wifi (for wifi plugin)
zeroconf (for autodiscover mode)

NOTE: When launching glances from a terminal with a bright background, the
option '--theme-white' is recommended. More options are documented in the man
page and in the file glances.conf.