Friday 17 January 2014

Glance on UNIX

I have used the "glance" utility on HP-UX and Linux systems for quite a while now to get visibility of system resources utilisation. But it's only recently on a quieter-than-normal Friday that I learnt a little more about how to use it.

Type "?" and you get a great menu and then there are all sorts of ways of digging down.

Standard Page Up/Down buttons help you in most screens.

Generally it's simple to navigate and can help you view hardware utilisation and, importantly for me, identify bottlenecks during IT projects.

Hope this is of help to someone else as well - just type "?" in glance and get a little better acquainted with a good tool.