Glances is a small but very useful application that can show you basically everything about your server in a nice (although chaotic) web GUI. It’s basically like if Task Manager from windows and htop had a child. It can show you everything from running processes, network activity, disk usage, CPU usage, memory usage and even show critical alerts for ongoing or past events.
Its a good idea to have it on any system as it can make finding problems a lot easier. I remember using it last year to see why my system was slow and rather than SSH’ing into the system and running some commands, I was able to just use Glances to see that my OS drive was 98% full.
This guide will be a short one as installing Glances is super easy.
Installing Glances in OMV Compose Plugin
Hopefully by now (and if you have been following the guides sequentially), you’ll be more familiar with the UI of OMV’s workbench. If not, no worries.
Head over to Services > Compose > Files and click the ‘+’ icon to create a new Compose file.
Next, you’ll need to find the Compose YAML from the Docker repo or GitHub. This is made by user nicolargo. Link to the Docker image here.
Paste the contents of the panel at the bottom into the new, blank Compose file.
This file should be enough however, we need to change a few things depending on our system configuration. First of all, we need to remove the unused variables relating to GPU usage. In this installation, I simply click and dragged from ‘under environment:’ until the bottom of the file and hit the delete key.
Leave the volumes as they are.
It should look lke this.
Hit ‘Up’ and the container should run.
After a few moments, the container should be up and accessible on your servers IP address and the port ‘61208’.
<IP_ADDRESS>:61208And when the page loads, it should look like this:
Thanks for reading!