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Glances screenshot from the Glances documentation I wanted to have an easy way to monitor how my server is doing. Glances is a software that gives you a good overview of your system. So I decided to install it. I have a headless Ubuntu Linux server machine for random programming and hobby projects. It runs a web server and a couple of other services. With "headless" I mean the server doesn't have a monitor or a desktop environment. I also have Home Assistant installed on a Raspberry Pi 4. I wanted to bring the monitoring data there for easy review. Glances allows one to do that. It provides a web interface for directly checking the status of the machine and an API for Home Assistant to gather status data. Glances installation the Ubuntu way is problematic I first tried to install Glances using the built-in package manager apt. This proved to be a bad idea for two reasons. First off, the Glances version that you will get with apt is outdated. Especially if you have an olde...

This guide might help you configure your lm-sensors. This example is made using an Intel DH61AG motherboard. After installing lm-sensors on my Ubuntu machine, I had some strange readings and alarms in the sensors output: coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0:  +37.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +102.0°C) Core 0:         +30.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +102.0°C) Core 1:         +31.0°C  (high = +82.0°C, crit = +102.0°C) nct6775-isa-0290 Adapter: ISA adapter Vcore:          +0.74 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +1.74 V) in1:            +1.09 V  (min =  +0.00 V, max =  +0.00 V)  ALARM AVCC:           +3.34 V  (min =  +2.98 V, max =  +3.63 V) +3.3V:      ...