slurm started as a FreeBSD port of the Linux ppp link monitor called pppstatus by Gabriel Montenegro. Hendrik Scholz ripped off the ppp dependent parts and the email checks to turn it into a generic network load monitor for *BSD, Linux, HP-UX and Solaris.
- "realtime" traffic statistics
- three graph modes: combined RX and TX and two split views
- can monitor any network device
- curses ascii graphics
- ascii theme support
- Debian GNU/Linux 10/11 (buster/bullseye)
- CentOS 7/8
- FreeBSD 12
- OpenBSD 6.9
- MacOS 12 (Monterey)
- Install meson and libncurses6-dev e.g.:
on Debian (if you don't want to use the Debian package of slurm)
sudo apt install build-essential meson libncurses6-dev
or on CentOS / RedHat
# Add EPEL on CentOS 7
sudo yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
# Enable PowerTools repo in CentOS 8
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools
sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
sudo yum install meson ncurses-devel
or on FreeBSD 12
pkg install meson pkgconf ncurses
or on Alpine Linux
apk add gcc musl-dev pkgconf meson ncurses-dev linux-headers
or on OpenBSD 6.9
pkg_add meson
-
Setup a build directory
meson setup _build -
Run meson to build
cd _build/ meson compile -
Install the program
sudo meson install -
Try it!
slurm -i eth0 # or whatever your interface is
Please report bugs and feature requests in the github bugtracker: website: https://github.com/mattthias/slurm
License: As pppstatus is licensed under the GPL, slurm is too.
