How To Monitor Network Load in Ubuntu With slurm Tool

To Monitor Network Load in Ubuntu With slurm Tool

The slurm tool displays device statistics together with an ascii graph. Installation of slurm to Monitor Network Load in Ubuntu is explained in this manual.

It provides three key functions
1.Allocates the resources.
2. Provides a framework for starting, executing, and monitoring work.
3. Manages the queue of pending jobs.

To install slurm

Run the following command to install slurm.

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install slurm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  slurm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 103 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/18.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 63.5 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package slurm.
(Reading database ... 206348 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../slurm_0.4.3-2build1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking slurm (0.4.3-2build1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up slurm (0.4.3-2build1) ...

Run the following command to select the interface that is to be monitor. The -i option is used to select the interface

root@linuxhelp1:~# slurm &ndash I ens33

Utilise the following command to start slurm in a large split graph mode

root@linuxhelp1:~# slurm &ndash I ens33 &ndash l

To start slurm in classic graph, execute the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# slurm &ndash I ens33 &ndash c

To Set delay between screen updates, use the following command.

root@linuxhelp1:~# slurm &ndash I ens33 &ndash d 4

Various option available in slurm are

c - Classic mode showing one graph
s - Split graph mode showing uploads and downloads (default)
l - Same as split graph, but larger. Some text omitted.
L - TX/RX LED mode
m - Cycle among classic (c), split (s), and large split (l)
q - Quit