bmon 2.1.0 review

bmon is a portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator running on various operating systems

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 263K Developer: Thomas Graf

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bmon is a portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator running on various operating systems. It supports various input methods for different architectures.Various output modes exist including an interactive interface built in curses, lightweight HTML output but also formatable 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.
tgr:axs ~ bmon -o ascii -p eth0
Interface RX Rate RX # TX Rate TX #
eth0 868.00B 2.0 131.00B 1.0
eth0 1.04KiB 2.0 99.00B 1.0
eth0 667.00B 1.0 65.00B 0.0
eth0 667.00B 1.0 65.00B 0.0
eth0 63.05KiB 47.0 1.40KiB 9.0
Interface RX Rate RX # TX Rate TX #
eth0 1.04KiB 2.0 99.00B 1.0

Requirements:
SunOS: libkstat (required)
Linux: libnl (recommended)

What's New in This Release:
[BIND] Use fcloseall if available
[NETLINK] removed debugging leftover
[CORE] input modules choose major/minor attrs
[CORE] major/minor total rates per node
[CORE] itemtab support for manual interface parameters
[CORE] item utilization of major attribute statistics
[CURSES] fixed minor drawing mistakes
[CURSES] restructured item list output
[SAVE] Renamed to xml_event
[XML-STATE] XML state output
[DIST] distribute item utilization and description
[FORMAT] Added more output variables
[DB] include item description and utilization