Information about the package, wavemon, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The wavemon package is designed for, Ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices.
Package Name:
wavemon
Summary:
Ncurses-based monitoring application for wireless network devices
Description:
wavemon is a wireless device monitoring application that allows you to watch all important information like device configuration, encryption, and power management parameters and network information at once. Adaptive level bargraphs for link quality, signal/noise strength and signal-to-noise ratio. The customizeable "level alarm" feature that notices the user of changes in signal level strength audibly and/or visually. wavemon is able to list of access points in range and shows full-screen level histogram displaying signal/noise levels and SNR.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.7.6
Release:
4.el6
Size:
65 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the wavemon package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install wavemon
This command will install wavemon on the server.
yum remove wavemon
This command will un-install wavemon on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wavemon, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove wavemon
This command will un-install wavemon on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove wavemon when using the -y flag.
yum update wavemon
This command will update wavemon to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wavemon, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update wavemon
This command will update wavemon to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove wavemon when using the -y flag.
yum info wavemon
This command will show you core information about the wavemon package.
yum deplist wavemon
This command will show you the dependencies for wavemon. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update wavemon
This command will check if there is an update waiting on wavemon. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.