Atop installation on Linux Host

Date Posted: 05-06-2017

Atop is a advanced system & process monitor tool used to monitor system resources, process even those are completed. In this post, we will explain on how to install atop on linux hosts.

Implementation:

There are multiple ways to install atop on the host. We can use either rpm or yum utility to install atop on RH based system. On Debian based system, use apt-get or dpkg method to install.

On RH based system,

Identify the OS architecture by executing the following command.

arch

Download the latest RPM from official website.

https://www.atoptool.nl/download/atop-2.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Install the RPM.

rpm -ivh atop-2.3.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Add the service atop to reboot safe

chkconfig atop on

On Debian Based System,

Atop will come by default repository. We can just use apt-get utility to install atop.

apt-get install atop

Add the service on reboot safe.

update-rc.d atop defaults

How to use Atop:

To view the current process status.

atop

To view memory consumption,

atop -m

To view Disk Utilization,

atop -d

To view uid, pid, gid, cpu about running processes,

atop -v

To show command of processes,

atop -c

To view users processes

atop -u

To view log at particular time,

atop -r -b 12:00

 

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