version 1.7.4

docs/_build/html/_sources/glances-doc.txt

@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 Glances
 =======
 
-This manual describes *Glances* version 1.7.3.
+This manual describes *Glances* version 1.7.4.
 
-Copyright © 2012-2013 Nicolas Hennion <nicolas@nicolargo.com>
+Copyright © 2012-2014 Nicolas Hennion <nicolas@nicolargo.com>
 
-November 2013
+January 2014
 
 .. contents:: Table of Contents
 
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Configuration
 
 No configuration file is mandatory to use Glances.
 
-Furthermore a configuration file is needed for setup limits and/or monitored processes list.
+Furthermore a configuration file is needed for setup limits, disks or network interfaces to hide and/or monitored processes list.
 
 By default, the configuration file is under:
 
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ Header
 
 .. image:: images/header.png
 
-The header shows the OS name, release version, platform architecture and the hostname.
+The header shows the hostname, OS name, release version, platform architecture and system uptime.
 On Linux, it shows also the kernel version.
 
 CPU
@@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ if the bit rate is higher than 70 Mbps.
 | If bit rate is ``>70%``, then status is set to ``"WARNING"``
 | If bit rate is ``>90%``, then status is set to ``"CRITICAL"``
 
+*Note*: In the configuration file, you can define a list of network interfaces to hide.
+
 Sensors
 -------
 
@@ -331,6 +333,8 @@ Glances displays the disk I/O throughput. The unit is adapted dynamically.
 
 *Note*: There is no alert on this information.
 
+*Note*: In the configuration file, you can define a list of disk to hide.
+
 File system
 -----------
 
@@ -365,6 +369,14 @@ Three views are available for processes:
 * Optional monitored processes list (new in 1.7)
 * Processes list
 
+The processes summary line display:
+
+* Tasks number (total number of processes)
+* Threads number 
+* Running tasks number
+* Sleeping tasks number
+* Other tasks number (not running or sleeping)
+
 By default, or if you hit the ``a`` key, the processes list is automatically
 sorted by CPU of memory usage.
 
@@ -506,6 +518,7 @@ else:
 
 On the left, you can easily see if you are connected to a Glances server.
 
+
 API documentation
 =================
 
@@ -513,6 +526,28 @@ Glances uses a `XML-RPC server`_ and can be used by another client software.
 
 API documentation is available at https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-API-How-To
 
+Others outputs
+==============
+
+Thanks to the -o option, it is possible to export statistics to CSV or HTML files.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    $ glances -o CSV -f /tmp/glances.csv
+
+CSV files have on line per stats:
+
+- load,load1,load5,load15
+- mem,total,used,free
+- swap,total,used,free
+- cpu,user,system,nice,idel,iowait,irq
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    $ glances -o HTML -f /tmp
+
+Note: The css and img folders (glances/data) should be in the /tmp folder
+
 Support
 =======
 

docs/_build/html/glances-doc.html

@@ -49,9 +49,9 @@
             
   <div class="section" id="glances">
 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id7">Glances</a><a class="headerlink" href="#glances" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
-<p>This manual describes <em>Glances</em> version 1.7.3.</p>
-<p>Copyright © 2012-2013 Nicolas Hennion &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:nicolas&#37;&#52;&#48;nicolargo&#46;com">nicolas<span>&#64;</span>nicolargo<span>&#46;</span>com</a>&gt;</p>
-<p>November 2013</p>
+<p>This manual describes <em>Glances</em> version 1.7.4.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2012-2014 Nicolas Hennion &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:nicolas&#37;&#52;&#48;nicolargo&#46;com">nicolas<span>&#64;</span>nicolargo<span>&#46;</span>com</a>&gt;</p>
+<p>January 2014</p>
 <div class="contents topic" id="table-of-contents">
 <p class="topic-title first">Table of Contents</p>
 <ul class="simple">
@@ -85,7 +85,8 @@
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#api-documentation" id="id30">API documentation</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#support" id="id31">Support</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#others-outputs" id="id31">Others outputs</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#support" id="id32">Support</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>
 </ul>
@@ -260,7 +261,7 @@ just run on the server:</p>
 <div class="section" id="configuration">
 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">Configuration</a><a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
 <p>No configuration file is mandatory to use Glances.</p>
-<p>Furthermore a configuration file is needed for setup limits and/or monitored processes list.</p>
+<p>Furthermore a configuration file is needed for setup limits, disks or network interfaces to hide and/or monitored processes list.</p>
 <p>By default, the configuration file is under:</p>
 <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
 <col class="field-name" />
@@ -305,7 +306,7 @@ directories on your system, except for Windows.</p>
 <div class="section" id="header">
 <h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18">Header</a><a class="headerlink" href="#header" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
 <img alt="_images/header.png" src="_images/header.png" />
-<p>The header shows the OS name, release version, platform architecture and the hostname.
+<p>The header shows the hostname, OS name, release version, platform architecture and system uptime.
 On Linux, it shows also the kernel version.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="cpu">
@@ -375,6 +376,7 @@ if the bit rate is higher than 70 Mbps.</p>
 <div class="line">If bit rate is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&gt;70%</span></tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;WARNING&quot;</span></tt></div>
 <div class="line">If bit rate is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&gt;90%</span></tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&quot;CRITICAL&quot;</span></tt></div>
 </div>
+<p><em>Note</em>: In the configuration file, you can define a list of network interfaces to hide.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="sensors">
 <h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23">Sensors</a><a class="headerlink" href="#sensors" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
@@ -399,6 +401,7 @@ if the bit rate is higher than 70 Mbps.</p>
 <img alt="_images/diskio.png" src="_images/diskio.png" />
 <p>Glances displays the disk I/O throughput. The unit is adapted dynamically.</p>
 <p><em>Note</em>: There is no alert on this information.</p>
+<p><em>Note</em>: In the configuration file, you can define a list of disk to hide.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="file-system">
 <h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25">File system</a><a class="headerlink" href="#file-system" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
@@ -426,6 +429,14 @@ adapted dynamically.</p>
 <li>Optional monitored processes list (new in 1.7)</li>
 <li>Processes list</li>
 </ul>
+<p>The processes summary line display:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Tasks number (total number of processes)</li>
+<li>Threads number</li>
+<li>Running tasks number</li>
+<li>Sleeping tasks number</li>
+<li>Other tasks number (not running or sleeping)</li>
+</ul>
 <p>By default, or if you hit the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">a</span></tt> key, the processes list is automatically
 sorted by CPU of memory usage.</p>
 <p><em>Note</em>: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[process]</span></tt> section.</p>
@@ -552,8 +563,26 @@ is installed on your system then Glances displays the available percent capacity
 <p>Glances uses a <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/2/library/simplexmlrpcserver.html">XML-RPC server</a> and can be used by another client software.</p>
 <p>API documentation is available at <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-API-How-To">https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-API-How-To</a></p>
 </div>
+<div class="section" id="others-outputs">
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31">Others outputs</a><a class="headerlink" href="#others-outputs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<p>Thanks to the -o option, it is possible to export statistics to CSV or HTML files.</p>
+<div class="highlight-console"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> glances -o CSV -f /tmp/glances.csv
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>CSV files have on line per stats:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>load,load1,load5,load15</li>
+<li>mem,total,used,free</li>
+<li>swap,total,used,free</li>
+<li>cpu,user,system,nice,idel,iowait,irq</li>
+</ul>
+<div class="highlight-console"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="gp">$</span> glances -o HTML -f /tmp
+</pre></div>
+</div>
+<p>Note: The css and img folders (glances/data) should be in the /tmp folder</p>
+</div>
 <div class="section" id="support">
-<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31">Support</a><a class="headerlink" href="#support" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id32">Support</a><a class="headerlink" href="#support" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
 <p>To report a bug or a feature request use the bug tracking system at <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues">https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues</a></p>
 <p>Feel free to contribute!</p>
 <table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id4" rules="none">
@@ -615,6 +644,7 @@ is installed on your system then Glances displays the available percent capacity
 </ul>
 </li>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#api-documentation">API documentation</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#others-outputs">Others outputs</a></li>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#support">Support</a></li>
 </ul>
 </li>

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@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="glances-doc.html#configuration">Configuration</a></li>
 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="glances-doc.html#anatomy-of-the-application">Anatomy of the application</a></li>
 <li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="glances-doc.html#api-documentation">API documentation</a></li>
+<li class="toctree-l2"><a class="reference internal" href="glances-doc.html#others-outputs">Others outputs</a></li>
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 <div class="document" id="glances">
 <h1 class="title">Glances</h1>
 
-<p>This manual describes <em>Glances</em> version 1.7.3.</p>
-<p>Copyright © 2012-2013 Nicolas Hennion &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:nicolas&#64;nicolargo.com">nicolas&#64;nicolargo.com</a>&gt;</p>
-<p>November 2013</p>
+<p>This manual describes <em>Glances</em> version 1.7.4.</p>
+<p>Copyright © 2012-2014 Nicolas Hennion &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:nicolas&#64;nicolargo.com">nicolas&#64;nicolargo.com</a>&gt;</p>
+<p>January 2014</p>
 <div class="contents topic" id="table-of-contents">
 <p class="topic-title first">Table of Contents</p>
 <ul class="simple">
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 </li>
 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#api-documentation" id="id29">API documentation</a></li>
-<li><a class="reference internal" href="#support" id="id30">Support</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#others-outputs" id="id30">Others outputs</a></li>
+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#support" id="id31">Support</a></li>
 </ul>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="introduction">
@@ -331,7 +332,7 @@ just run on the server:</p>
 <div class="section" id="configuration">
 <h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">Configuration</a></h1>
 <p>No configuration file is mandatory to use Glances.</p>
-<p>Furthermore a configuration file is needed for setup limits and/or monitored processes list.</p>
+<p>Furthermore a configuration file is needed for setup limits, disks or network interfaces to hide and/or monitored processes list.</p>
 <p>By default, the configuration file is under:</p>
 <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none">
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 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">Header</a></h2>
 <img alt="images/header.png" src="images/header.png" />
-<p>The header shows the OS name, release version, platform architecture and the hostname.
+<p>The header shows the hostname, OS name, release version, platform architecture and system uptime.
 On Linux, it shows also the kernel version.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="cpu">
@@ -446,6 +447,7 @@ if the bit rate is higher than 70 Mbps.</p>
 <div class="line">If bit rate is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;70%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;WARNING&quot;</tt></div>
 <div class="line">If bit rate is <tt class="docutils literal">&gt;90%</tt>, then status is set to <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;CRITICAL&quot;</tt></div>
 </div>
+<p><em>Note</em>: In the configuration file, you can define a list of network interfaces to hide.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="sensors">
 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22">Sensors</a></h2>
@@ -470,6 +472,7 @@ if the bit rate is higher than 70 Mbps.</p>
 <img alt="images/diskio.png" src="images/diskio.png" />
 <p>Glances displays the disk I/O throughput. The unit is adapted dynamically.</p>
 <p><em>Note</em>: There is no alert on this information.</p>
+<p><em>Note</em>: In the configuration file, you can define a list of disk to hide.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="file-system">
 <h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24">File system</a></h2>
@@ -497,6 +500,14 @@ adapted dynamically.</p>
 <li>Optional monitored processes list (new in 1.7)</li>
 <li>Processes list</li>
 </ul>
+<p>The processes summary line display:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Tasks number (total number of processes)</li>
+<li>Threads number</li>
+<li>Running tasks number</li>
+<li>Sleeping tasks number</li>
+<li>Other tasks number (not running or sleeping)</li>
+</ul>
 <p>By default, or if you hit the <tt class="docutils literal">a</tt> key, the processes list is automatically
 sorted by CPU of memory usage.</p>
 <p><em>Note</em>: limit values can be overwritten in the configuration file under the <tt class="docutils literal">[process]</tt> section.</p>
@@ -623,8 +634,26 @@ is installed on your system then Glances displays the available percent capacity
 <p>Glances uses a <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/2/library/simplexmlrpcserver.html">XML-RPC server</a> and can be used by another client software.</p>
 <p>API documentation is available at <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-API-How-To">https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/The-Glances-API-How-To</a></p>
 </div>
+<div class="section" id="others-outputs">
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id30">Others outputs</a></h1>
+<p>Thanks to the -o option, it is possible to export statistics to CSV or HTML files.</p>
+<pre class="code console literal-block">
+<span class="generic prompt">$</span> glances -o CSV -f /tmp/glances.csv
+</pre>
+<p>CSV files have on line per stats:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>load,load1,load5,load15</li>
+<li>mem,total,used,free</li>
+<li>swap,total,used,free</li>
+<li>cpu,user,system,nice,idel,iowait,irq</li>
+</ul>
+<pre class="code console literal-block">
+<span class="generic prompt">$</span> glances -o HTML -f /tmp
+</pre>
+<p>Note: The css and img folders (glances/data) should be in the /tmp folder</p>
+</div>
 <div class="section" id="support">
-<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id30">Support</a></h1>
+<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31">Support</a></h1>
 <p>To report a bug or a feature request use the bug tracking system at <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues">https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/issues</a></p>
 <p>Feel free to contribute!</p>
 <table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id4" rules="none">

glances/glances.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #
 # Glances - An eye on your system
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2013 Nicolargo <nicolas@nicolargo.com>
+# Copyright (C) 2014 Nicolargo <nicolas@nicolargo.com>
 #
 # Glances is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 __appname__ = 'glances'
-__version__ = "1.7.4_RC1"
+__version__ = "1.7.4"
 __author__ = "Nicolas Hennion <nicolas@nicolargo.com>"
 __licence__ = "LGPL"
 
@@ -4654,15 +4654,7 @@ def main():
             client_tag = True
             server_ip = arg
         elif opt in ("-p", "--port"):
-            try:
-                port_number = int(arg)
-            except:
-                print("Error: Invalid port number (%s)" % arg)
-                sys.exit(2)
-            if (port_number < 1) or (port_number > 65535):
-                print(_("Error: Port number should be a positive integer (1 <-> 65535)"))
-                sys.exit(2)
-            server_port = port_number
+            server_port = arg
         elif opt in ("-o", "--output"):
             if arg.lower() == "html":
                 html_tag = True
@@ -4788,8 +4780,12 @@ def main():
     # Init Glances depending of the mode (standalone, client, server)
     if server_tag:
         # Init the server
+        try:
+            server = GlancesServer(bind_ip, int(server_port), GlancesXMLRPCHandler, cached_time)
+        except (ValueError, socket.error) as err:
+            print(_("Error: Invalid port number: %s") % err)
+            sys.exit(2)
         print(_("Glances server is running on") + " %s:%s" % (bind_ip, server_port))
-        server = GlancesServer(bind_ip, int(server_port), GlancesXMLRPCHandler, cached_time)
 
         # Set the server login/password (if -P/--password tag)
         if password != "":
@@ -4806,7 +4802,11 @@ def main():
         stats.update({})
     elif client_tag:
         # Init the client (displaying server stat in the CLI)
-        client = GlancesClient(server_ip, int(server_port), username, password)
+        try:
+            client = GlancesClient(server_ip, int(server_port), username, password)
+        except (ValueError, socket.error) as err:
+            print(_("Error: Invalid port number: %s") % err)
+            sys.exit(2)
 
         # Test if client and server are in the same major version
         if not client.client_init():