How To Install bmon on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install bmon on CentOS 7. bmon is Bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bmon on CentOS 7.

What is bmon

bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool to capture networking related statistics and prepare them visually in a human friendly way. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and a programmable text output for scripting.

We can use yum or dnf to install bmon on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bmon.

Install bmon on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install bmon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bmon

Install bmon on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install bmon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bmon

How To Uninstall bmon on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the bmon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bmon

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bmon on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.