How to install nmon on Ubuntu 16.04

To install nmon on Ubuntu 16.04

nmon is a nifty tool to monitor various system resources such as CPU, memory, network, disks, file systems, NFS, top processes, Power micro-partition and resources on Linux terminal. It has support common architectures like POWER, x86, x86_64, Mainframe & now ARM (Raspberry Pi). This system administrator tuner, benchmark tool gives you a huge amount of important performance information which will help you to troubleshoot the system performance when you have the issues.

Installing nmon

First, make sure you update the system by making use of the following command.

root@localhost:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                           
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease     
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Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Once it is done, you shall install nmon on Ubuntu by making use of the following command.

root@localhost:~# apt-get install nmon
Reading package lists... Done
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Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up nmon (14g+debian-1build1) ...

Once the installation is over, make sure you launch the application by making use of the following command.

root@localhost:~# nmon

welcome screen of nmon appears on your screen.

You should now check CPU utilization by processor.

And also, you need to check the memory utilization.

Apart from that, you can check disk utilization.

You can also check Network utilization.

And check for top processes

Check system information now.


Load more then one widgets (CPU, memory, disk & network utilization)

With this, the tutorial on nmon on Ubuntu 16.04 comes to an end.