Saidar is a curses-based (Curses-based software is software whose user interface is implemented through the curses library) tool for viewing system statistics and monitors the Linux system. It is a command-line based tool as it is run on a terminal.
To install saidar on Debian based Linux system run the following command on the terminal:
sudo apt-get install saidar
To run saidar run the following command:
saidar
Then saidar will start as shown in fig:
Saidar shows the following information about the system:
Hostname: In this Hostname, saidar shows the system hostname.
Uptime: In this Uptime, saidar shows the uptime of the system.
Load:
- Load 1: Load on the system in previous 1 minute.
- Load 5: Load on the system in previous 5 minutes.
- Load 15: Load on the system in previous 15 minutes.
CPU load: In this CPU section saidar show the information about CPU in the following manner:
- CPU Idle: Percentage of free CPU which is not used by any program
- CPU System: Percentage of CPU usage by system.
- CPU User: Percentage of CPU usage by the current user.
Processes: In this section following information about the processes on the system is shown:
- Running: Count of total running processes.
- Sleeping: Count of total sleeping processes.
- Stopped: Count of stopped processes on the system.
- Zombie: Count of total zombie processes.
- Total:Total number of processes running on system
No. User: In this section saidar show, the no. of users logged in the system.
Memory(Ram) Usage:
- Mem Total: Total Memory installed in the system in Mb.
- Mem Used: Total used memory in Mb.
- Mem Free: Total free memory in Mb
Swap Memory:
- Swap Total: Total swap memory allocated to the system.
- Swap Used: Swap memory used by the system in Mb
- Swap free: Free swap memory in Mb
Disk: In this section saidar show the disks on the system with their read and write speed.
Network Interface: In this section saidar show information about the network interfaces on a system with its speed.
Mount points: It shows all mount points in the system.
Command-Line Utility to saidar
-h argument: To display help and another argument for saidar.
saidar -h
-d argument: This argument used to set the update of saidar in seconds.
saidar -d
-c argument: This argument is used to display colored output.
saidar -c
-v argument: This argument is used to display a version of saidar.
saidar -v
To stop saidar press key CTRL+c and to remove saidar from the system run the following command:
sudo apt-get remove saidar