How to install glances monitoring tool in Centos / RHEL servers

This package  came as an EPEL package . So you need to enable this repository in your  “yum” configurations. For enabling this package , simply install the  epel release rpm from http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/i386/repoview/epel-release.html
At the time of this writing the package version is as follows,

# rpm -ivh  http://epel.mirror.net.in/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Now update yum and install glances,

# yum clean all
# yum update
# yum  install glances

The installation has been completed. You may now try the following command in shell and monitor your server resurce usages,

# glances -t 5

This is a good tool for system administrators and harmless.