swapnilmukherjee / SystemMonitoringTool

This is a Python-based system monitoring tool that periodically checks and displays the usage of system resources like CPU, memory, and disk in a user-friendly format. It uses psutil and matplotlib libraries and can be run as a service in Linux with systemd. The repository contains source code and instructions for installation and execution.

System Monitoring Tool The system monitoring tool project is a Python program that periodically monitors the system's resources such as CPU usage, memory usage, and disk usage, and displays the data in a user-friendly way on the terminal. It also logs the data to a file for future reference.

The program uses various Python libraries such as psutil, which provides an easy-to-use interface to retrieve information on system utilization (CPU, memory, disks, network, sensors) in a portable way, and prettytable, which allows you to display the data in a well-formatted table.

Moreover, this project provides a way to run the program as a service using systemd in Linux. This ensures that the program is automatically started when the system boots up and is always running in the background.

Installation and Execution:

1. Download the project code from the GitHub repository.

2. Make sure you have Python installed in your environment, if not visit the official Python website at https://www.python.org/downloads/, download and run the installer for your operating system, and follow the instructions in the installer to complete the installation.

3. To insall PSUTIL, open the termial and type:

     pip install psutil
   

4. To insall MATPLOTLIB, open the termial and type:

     pip install matplotlib
   

5. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where you downloaded the code.

6. Create a new systemd service file using the following command:

     sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/system_monitor.service
   

7.Copy and paste the following code into the file:

    [Unit]
    Description=System Monitor

    [Service]
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /path/to/system_monitor.py
    Restart=always
    User=<your_username_here>

    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

Replace /path/to/system_monitor.py with the path to your system_monitor.py script, and replace <your_username_here> with your username.

8. Save and close the file.

9. Start the service using the following command:

     sudo systemctl start system_monitor.service
   

10. Check that the service is running:

      sudo systemctl status system_monitor.service
    

11. Execute the following command to start the script:

      python3 system_monitor.py
    

12. To stop the systemd service, execute the following command:

      sudo systemctl stop system_monitor.service
    

13. To stop the application press Ctrl + C on the terminal.