FAQ SynoCliMonitor

SynoCommunity CLI Monitor package specific FAQ

The synocli-monitor package provides some monitoring related tools to advanced Linux users:

• busybox
  This package includes some tools provided by busybox: ionice and the process utilities: lsof, iostat, pgrep, pmap, watch (and pstree on DSM 5). [GPL]
• nmon
  nmon (Nigel's performance Monitor) is a performance monitoring tool for Linux. [GPLv3]
• iperf2
  A tool for measuring TCP and UDP network performance, based on iperf 2.0.5. [BSD]
• iperf3
  The iperf series of tools perform active measurements to determine the maximum achievable bandwidth on IP networks. It supports tuning of various parameters related to timing, protocols, and buffers. For each test it reports the measured throughput, loss, and other parameters. [three clause BSD]
• htop (you need to call this with full path, as older version of htop is included in DSM 5.1 and newer)
  Interactive text-mode process viewer for Unix systems. The package is intended for DSM-5.0 or earlier where it's not available. [GPLv2]
• cpulimit
  CPU usage limiter for Linux. [GPLv2+]
• bandwhich
  CLI utility for displaying current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostname. [MIT]
• btm (bottom)
  A customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal. [MIT]
• procs
  A modern replacement for ps written in Rust. [MIT]