bmon  4.0
About: bmon is a bandwidth monitor capable of retrieving statistics from various input modules.
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README.md

bmon - Bandwidth Monitor

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bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually in a human friendly way. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and a programmable text output for scripting.

Download

Debian/Ubuntu Installation

git clone https://github.com/tgraf/bmon.git
cd bmon
apt-get install build-essential make libconfuse-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-route-3-dev libncurses-dev pkg-config dh-autoreconf
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon

CentOS (6) Installation

git clone https://github.com/tgraf/bmon.git
cd bmon
yum install make libconfuse-devel libnl3-devel libnl-route3-devel ncurses-devel
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon

OSX Installation

Install libconfuse

wget https://github.com/martinh/libconfuse/releases/download/v2.8/confuse-2.8.zip
unzip confuse-2.8.zip && cd confuse-2.8
PATH=/usr/local/opt/gettext/bin:$PATH ./configure
make
make install

Install bmon

git clone https://github.com/tgraf/bmon.git
cd bmon
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
bmon

New in 4.0

  • Use monotonic clock instead of realtime clock
  • Pick default selected interface based on policy
  • Collect RX NoHandler statistics if available (Linux)
  • CentOS installation instructions
  • Proper stdout flush in ASCII mode
  • Bugfixes

Usage

To run bmon in the default curses mode:

bmon

There are many other options available and full help is provided via:

bmon --help

Screenshots

Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2 Screenshot 3

Various authors, see git commit log.

Copyright (c) 2001-2016 Thomas Graf tgraf@suug.ch Copyright (c) 2013 Red Hat, Inc.

Please see the LICENSE.BSD and LICENSE.MIT files for additional details.