Η company Microsoft κυκλοφόρησε για λειτουργικά LInux, το ProcMon, ένα εργαλείο παρακολούθησης δεδομένων σε πραγματικό χρόνο.
Microsoft said it revealed some time ago that it intended to bring some of the tools provided by Sysinternals to Linux. One of these tools mentioned at the time was Process Monitor or ProcMon for short. A preview version of the application is now available for Linux operating systems.
Process Monitor is one advanced monitoring tool for Windows, which displays real-time data such as registry, thread activity, etc. It is a powerful tool that supports logging information to files for later analysis.
The program is highly configurable, supports non-destructive filters, can also collect stacks of threads, it downloads the processes that are running, as well as recording the time cfmovementof operations.
The Linux version of Procmon is now available on GitHub. The tool is open source and released as a Preview. This means it is limited to running systems Ubuntu 18.04 with core 4.18 to 5.3.
Microsoft plans to add more configurations for various Linux systems in the future. Currently the installation instructions on Ubuntu 18.04 devices are quite simple. You only have to execute the following commands:
- wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/$(lsb_release -rs) /packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
- sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get install procmon
The Construction instructions are also provided on the GitHub website where Linux users can download a .deb file from the Versions section of the ProcMon GitHub page.
After installation you can run the procmon -h command to see the help screen. In general, Procmon is a powerful advanced monitoring tool for your system.