systeminformation
Simple system and OS information library for node.js
Using systeminformation
Installation
$ npm install systeminformation
Usage
All functions are implemented as asynchronous functions. Here a small example how to use them:
var si = require('systeminformation');
si.cpu(function(data) {
console.log('CPU-Information:');
console.log(data);
})
Core concept
Node.JS comes with some basic OS-informations, but I always wanted a little more. So I came up to write this little library. This library is work in progress. It is quite "fresh" - means, there might be a lot of inconsistencies or even bugs. I was only able to test it on some Debian and Ubuntu distributions as well as OSX (Maveriks). But be carefull, not all options will work on OSX. AND: this library will definitely NOT work on Windows platforms!
If you have comments, suggestions & reports, please feel free to contact me!
Reference
Sections
This library is splitted in several sections:
- Operating System
- CPU
- Memory
- File System
- Network
- Processes
- Users
- Internet
Command Reference and OS Support
| command | Linux | OSX | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| si.osinfo() | X | X | OS information |
| - platform | X | X | 'Linux' or 'Darwin' |
| - distro | X | X | |
| - release | X | X | |
| - codename | X | ||
| - kernel | X | X | kernel release - same as os.release() |
| - arch | X | X | same as os.arch() |
| - hostname | X | X | same as os.hostname() |
| - logofile | X | X | e.g. 'apple', 'debian', 'fedora', ... |
| si.cpu() | X | X | CPU information |
| - brand | X | X | e.g. 'Intel(R)' |
| - speed | X | X | e.g. '3.40GHz' |
| - cores | X | X | # cores |
| si.cpu_currentspeed() | X | X | current speed (GHz) |
| si.cpu_temperature() | X | CPU temperature (if sensors is installed) | |
| - main | X | X | main temperature |
| - cores | X | X | array of temperatures |
| si.mem() | X | X | Memory information |
| - total | X | X | |
| - free | X | X | |
| - used | X | X | |
| - active | X | X | |
| - buffcache | X | X | |
| - swaptotal | X | ||
| - swapused | X | ||
| - swapfree | X | ||
| si.fs_size() | X | X | returns array of mounted file systems |
| - [0].fs | X | X | name of file system |
| - [0].size | X | X | sizes in Bytes |
| - [0].used | X | X | used in Bytes |
| - [0].use | X | X | used in % |
| - [0].mount | X | X | mount point |
| si.fs_speed() | X | currend transfer speed | |
| - read_sec | X | bytes read / second | |
| - write_sec | X | bytes written / second | |
| si.network_interfaces() | X | X | array of network interfaces |
| - [0].iface | X | X | interface name |
| - [0].ip4 | X | X | ip4 address |
| - [0].ip6 | X | X | ip6 address |
| si.network_speed('eth1') | X | current network speed of given interface | |
| - operstate | X | up / down | |
| - rx_sec | X | received bytes / second | |
| - tx_sec | X | X | transferred bytes per second |
| si.currentload() | X | X | CPU-Load in % |
| si.fullload() | X | X | CPU-full load since bootup in % |
| si.services('mysql, apache2, nginx') | X | X | pass comma separated string of services |
| - [0].service | X | X | name of service |
| - [0].running | X | X | true / false |
| - [0].pcpu | X | X | process % CPU |
| - [0].pmem | X | X | process % MEM |
| si.processes() | X | X | # running processes |
| si.processload('apache2') | X | X | detailed information about given process |
| - proc | X | X | process name |
| - pid | X | X | PID |
| - cpu | X | X | process % CPU |
| - mem | X | X | process % MEM |
| si.users() | X | X | array of users online |
| si.checksite(url) | X | X | response-time (ms) to fetch given URL |
Remember: All functions are implemented as asynchronous functions! So another example, how to use a specific function might be:
var si = require('systeminformation');
si.network_speed('eth1', function(data) {
console.log('Network Interface Speed (eth1):');
console.log('- is up: ' + data.operstate);
console.log('- RX speed/sec: ' + data.rx_sec);
console.log('- TX speed/sec: ' + data.tx_sec);
})
Version history
| Version | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0.4 | 2015-07-18 | updated docs |
| 1.0.3 | 2015-07-18 | bugfix cpu cores |
| 1.0.2 | 2015-07-18 | bugfix cpu_currentspeed, cpu_temperature |
| 1.0.1 | 2015-07-18 | documentation update |
| 1.0.0 | 2015-07-18 | bug-fixes, version bumb, published as npm component |
| 0.0.3 | 2014-04-14 | bug-fix (cpu_speed) |
| 0.0.2 | 2014-03-14 | Optimization FS-Speed & CPU current speed |
| 0.0.1 | 2014-03-13 | initial release |
Comments
If you have ideas or comments, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Happy monitoring!
Sincerely, Sebastian Hildebrandt http://www.plus-innovations.com
Credits
Written by Sebastian Hildebrandt sebhildebrandt
License
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