Slurm real-time network traffic monitoring

Although the gnome system monitor can view the network status, command line tools such as Slurm consume less resources and are easy to use. Slurm initially implemented a port status monitor for FreeBSD. Function Overview:

• Display the real-time traffic swallowed up status
• View display selectable
• Monitors any network interface
• Show Details about the interface

Install Slurm to Ubuntu

Sudo aptitude install Slurm

This completes the installation.
Slurm syntax

Slurm [-hhz] [-CSL] [-D delay]-I interface

To monitor the first network card (eth0), run the following command:

Slurm-I eth0

The output in the terminal is similar to the following.