Bmon is a portable real-time bandwidth monitor and rate estimator. It supports various input methods for different architectures. Various output modes exist, including an interactive curses interface, lightweight HTML output, and simple ASCII output. Statistics may be distributed over a network using multicast or unicast and collected at some point to generate a summary of statistics for a set of nodes.
Install Bmon on Debian/Ubuntu linux
For Debian/Ubuntu systems type following command in a terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install bmon
Install Bmon from source code
Here are the steps to install bmon from source code:
Download the latest version from Carisma website
$ wget http://www.carisma.slowglass.com/~tgr/bmon/files/bmon-3.1.tar.gz
Extract it
$ tar zxfv bmon-3.1.tar.gz
Go the the extracted folder
$ cd bmon-3.1
Compile and install bmon
$ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install
How to use bmon
Bmon is an console based tool, open a terminal and enter the command “bmon” and you should see the following output:
As shown, it lists all the available interfaces. At the bottom, you will find two options to open graph and detailed output by clicking g and d respectively. If done, the output should look like this:
To get some help how to operate bmon, press “?“button:
Bmon can be a handy tool for debugging and monitor bandwidth in real-time mode. For more features, you might want to take a look at its man page:
$ man bmon or bmon --help