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Episode: 3635
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Title: HPR3635: A short podcast on a nice tool called system-monitoring-center
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3635/hpr3635.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 02:33:36
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,635 for Friday 8 July 2022.
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Today's show is entitled, a short podcast on a nice tool called System Monitoring Center.
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It is part of the series What's In My Toolkit.
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It is hosted by Jaron Baton.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is.
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This is a short podcast on a nice tool called System Monitoring Center.
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Hello people from HPR.
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This is Jaron Baton again, back since a long time of absence.
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This time was a small, very small podcast, but nonetheless I hope you enjoy it.
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I would like to talk about a little Linux desktop tool called System Monitoring Center
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with dashes in between the words System Monitoring Center.
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I found it recently.
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I forgot where article URL I don't know.
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Anyway, I found it.
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It's on get up.
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I'll put the link in the show notes, of course.
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It's a GUI tool for your system performance and metrics that could be of interest.
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Now you probably say, no, I'm not interested.
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I'm using top or I'm way more advanced.
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I use H top.
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Well, yes.
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But what do you do about I.O?
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Ha, got you there.
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All those terminal tools are nice as they are, but I.O is difficult.
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There is I.O. stand, of course, but that doesn't really relate it to anything.
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So System Monitoring Center, OK, so what is it?
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Well, at the top, it's a GUI tool and at the top, it's got one, two, three, four, five,
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six tabs called performance, processes, users, startup, services, and system.
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And the performance one is the default one that's open, and that one also contains vertical
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tabs.
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So it's got a system summary, which is basically sort of a speedometer of your car, which
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shows CPU load, RAM usage, in percentage, swap usage, in percentage, and the read and
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white speed of your I.O.
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And also the download and upload speed on your network.
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And there are subsequent vertical tabs, CPU, memory, disk, network, GPU, and sensors
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that you can all select to really drill down on what is happening.
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So if you see your disk performance going up, you can move to the disk tab, and you see
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a list of all the devices on your system, and you can select one and then see the statistics
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for that one.
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So if we leave the performance tab and go to the processes tab, we simply see a list
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of processes, we could optionally see that in a tree view, but you can also right click
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on the process, and for instance, you select to terminate something, you know, that's
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something that happens sometimes.
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The user's tab shows you a list of users that you can basically only see info off.
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The startup shows you the processes that are all selected during startup to run.
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The services are the ones that are, well, services, of course, that are running.
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And the system tab, horizontal, horizontal system tab, is the one that shows you a nice
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system overview.
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You know, uptime and the host name, et cetera, et cetera.
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So, well, that's basically it, it's a very nice graphical tool, and I can recommend it
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to everybody to download it, run it on your system, and well, I wouldn't be surprised
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if you become so enthusiastic about it, that you make a podcast about it as well.
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So anyway, this is a very short podcast, I know, but that's basically the news I have
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for this thing.
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So I wish you all have a nice day, and see you later, bye-bye.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio, and Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording a podcast, click on our contribute link to find out how
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easy it really is.
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The HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the internet archive, and our
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things.net.
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On the Sadois status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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