Links

• https://github.com/nicolargo/glances Glances an Eye on your system (I like this one)

• smartctl - provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

• http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

• The easiest way to check the health of the hard disk (using a GUI on a Debian based distribution) is to use GSmartControl, http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/.

• I downloaded and installed a deb file from http://www.getdeb.net/app/GSmartControl.

  The application is automatically installed to Applications, System Tools, GSmartControl (or to start from the command prompt, sudo gsmartcontrol.

  I made some progress with the command line version, but didn’t work out how to view the report:

  sudo apt-get install smartmontools
  sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda6
  sudo smartctl -t short /dev/sda6
  sudo smartctl -X /dev/sda6
  

• htop http://www.yourownlinux.com/2013/07/monitor-system-processes-with-htop.html