System Monitor

This project is a simpler version of the Linux system monitoring tool htop that was built for the Udacity C++ Nano Degree program second course. The tool shows information related to the system and the proccesses, including:

• Operating system name and version
• Kernel version
• Average CPU utilization
• Average RAM utilization
• Total number of processes
• Number of running processes
• System Up Time
• List of 10 processes with the highest CPU utilization. The list includes:
  • Process ID
  • User name
  • CPU core utilization
  • RAM
  • Up Time
  • Command used to run the process

The project relies on ncurses, a library that facilitates text-based graphical output in the terminal.

Dependencies (Linux)

1. Cmake and GCC:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install build-essential
    sudo apt install cmake

2. Ncurses Ncurses Library

sudo apt install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

Build

To Build the project, first, create a build directory and change to that directory:

    mkdir build && cd build

From within the build directory, run cmake and make as follows:

    cmake ..
    make

Run

The executable will be placed in the build directory. From within build, you can run the project as follows:

    ./monitor

Authors

• Fedi Salhi FediSalhi