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Conky is a graphical system monitoring tool for Linux. It is normally used to show all kinds of data as text or diagrams in the root window of your screen, in a much bigger and more readable format than any panel may do. As the galleries on the official website or at Scrnshots.com prove, Conky provides lots of ways to customize your desktop and impress your friends. Exchanging, tweaking, and discussing Conky configuration files can be a lot of fun if you find the most common Linux environments a bit too dull. In general, Conky may run on one computer but appear on the monitor of another one, via SSH orGnu Screen. Conky may also load data from plain text files of any kind, from local logs to RSS feeds or Web pages downloaded with w3m or other command line tools. In addition to all this, Conky can
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#11 & #12 – netstat and ss – Network Statistics The command netstat displays network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, and multicast memberships. ss command is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. #13 – iptraf – Real-time Network Statistics The iptraf command is interactive colorful IP LAN monitor. It is an ncurses-based IP LAN monitor that generates various network statistics including TCP info, UDP counts, ICMP and OSPF information, Ethernet load info, node stats, IP checksum errors, and others. It can provide the following info in easy to read format: (more…)
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