You would have used top at some point of time. Did you not wish that instead of just the processes it list all the vital statistics of the system as a whole. How good it would be to see the Memory, Net, Processes and Disk usage on the same screen. Well then you should take a look at glances. Here is how it looks:

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For using this tool, here is what you need to do :

sudo yum install glances

and here is the description of the tool:

Description :
Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for both GNU/Linux and BSD.

Glances uses the libstatgrab library to get information from your system.
Glances is developed in Python and uses the python-statgrab lib.

Hope you like it.

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