Linux-Info
API in Perl to recover information about the running Linux OS
DESCRIPTION
Linux::Info
is a fork from Sys::Statistics::Linux distribution.
Linux::Info
is a front-end module to gather different linux
system information like processor workload, memory usage, network and
disk statistics and a lot more. Refer the documentation of the
distribution modules to get more information about all possible
statistics.
By obvious reasons, this distribution will run only at Linux O.S.
MOTIVATION
Sys::Statistics::Linux
is a great distribution (and I used it a lot),
but it was built to recover only Linux statistics when I was also
looking for other additional information about the OS.
Linux::Info
will provide additional information not available in
Sys::Statistics::Linux
, as general processor information and hopefully
apply patches and suggestions not implemented in the original project.
Sys::Statistics::Linux
is also more forgiving regarding compatibility
with older perls interpreters, modules version that it depends on and
even older OS. If you find that Linux::Info
is not available to your old
system, you should try it.
What is different from Sys::Statistics::Linux?
Linux::Info
has:
- a more modern Perl 5 code;
- doesn't use
exec
syscall to acquire information; - provides additional information about the processors;
- higher Kwalitee;
INSTALL
To install this module, unpack the downloaded tarball and execute the following commands in the created directory:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install
Linux::Info
is also available on CPAN, so you can also download and install
automatically this distribution, dependencies included, by using the CPAN shell
(or CPAN Minus or whatever you prefer).
If you prefer to use it directly from the Github repository, you can also use
the cpanfile
included to take care of the dependencies without installing
Dist::Zilla
(see cpanm --installdeps
).
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2015 of Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior, arfreitas@cpan.org
This file is part of Linux Info project.
Linux Info is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Linux Info is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Linux Info. If not, see (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).