want to install atop on my freenas.

[Muhammad Yousuf Khan]

i am a Debian linux user this is my first time that i am practicing freebsd due to Freenas now i am trying to find Linux packages alternative into freenas so that i can have the same reporting tools in freebsd. i know this is difficult as linux and bsd are not same however I have found out that there are some packages which can be installed in freenas to some extent. one of which is atop (aka "atop-freebsd") is present for bsd OS i want this utility to be installed on my new freenas box. can anyone please through light on this.

Thanks,
MYK

 

[danb35]

Set up a jail, and you can install whatever you want inside it. FreeNAS is not designed for you to be able to install additional software on the base OS.

 

[L]

If you were using plain vanilla freebsd you could run #pkg search toolname and then #pkg install toolname. Packaging tools very similar in syntax to debian. FreeNAS isn't designed to let you add packages easily, but most of the freebsd packages you would want for nas are already there.

Did you have something in mind? I agree with the idea of adding a jail and adding software from there.

 

[jgreco]

The problem is that a system monitoring tool is useless inside a jail. The flip side of THAT coin is that you probably shouldn't need to do deep-diving on the behavior of the userland processes on a NAS appliance anyways, unless you're debugging some problem.

What problem are we trying to solve here?

 

[Muhammad Yousuf Khan]

Thanks guyz for your input. sorry for the late response as i was on vacations. actually i want to check which Process is using most of the disk IO. just like we can do in linux iotop and atop. and also top bandwidth consuming processes.

actually atop gives all in one window solution thats why i was looking for atop type application.

Thanks,
Myk