Install iftop, htop and NetHogs on RHEL / CentOS 6.x x86_64 [Internet Required]

Recently I was given a task to create two CentOS 6.5 Jump Servers in the environment I am working currently.

There was a specific requirement for the following packages.

• iftop – Network Bandwidth Monitoring
• htop – Linux Process Monitoring
• NetHogs – Monitor per process Network Bandwidth

We have an internal secure proxy server via which Internet was easily available for my servers. This is how I did:

Step 1 – Enable EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) and install rpm

cd /tmp

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Step 2 – Verify EPEL Repo

yum repolist

(it should display EPEL repo in the output)

Step 3 – Install packages

yum -y install iftop

yum -y install htop

yum – y install NetHogs

Note: Just in case you face the following error:

yum error “Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its path and try again”

You will have to edit the following repo’s by commenting entries ‘mirrorlist=..’ and un-comment entries ‘baseurl=…’

• /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
• /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-testing.repo