# Installer sntop avec Homebrew, apt

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de sntop pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:sntop
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install sntop
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install sntop
```

  Preuve: Debian stable package indexes: sntop from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:sntop
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.4.3
- **Résumé source:** Curses-based utility that polls hosts to determine connectivity
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://sntop.sourceforge.net/>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- sntop (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.4.3
## Historique du projet et usages

sntop is a small ncurses, top-like monitor for checking whether configured network hosts are reachable. It is a SourceForge-era Unix utility: simple C code, terminal UI, fping/ping underneath, and package-manager availability for administrators who want a lightweight status board.

### Historique du projet

The official project site credits Robert M. Love and Chris M. Rivera and describes sntop as an ncurses-based console utility for monitoring host connectivity. It uses fping, with ping as a supported fallback, and displays results in a top-like format.

SourceForge's files page lists sntop 1.4.3 as a release from November 2001, placing the tool in the early-2000s wave of small Unix admin utilities distributed through SourceForge tarballs, RPMs, and Debian packages.

### Historique d'adoption

The input records Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu packages. SourceForge's file tree also includes source, source RPM, i386 RPM, and Debian-package areas, showing that sntop was packaged for multiple Unix/Linux consumption styles.

### Modes d'utilisation

Administrators configure hosts, then use sntop to poll them at intervals and view their status in a terminal. The official page also mentions HTML generation, secure terminal mode, color support, daemon mode, and running external files when a host changes state or goes down.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Package nerds care because sntop is exactly the kind of tiny operational tool that survives through distro recipes: it wraps existing primitives like fping in a curses display, has almost no conceptual overhead, and remains useful on servers where a full monitoring stack would be excessive.

### Chronologie

- 2001: SourceForge files page lists sntop 1.4.3 released.
- 2000s: SourceForge distribution includes source tarballs plus RPM and Debian packaging areas.
- 2026: Input package-manager facts list Homebrew, Debian, and Ubuntu packages.

### Related projects

- Related tools include fping, ping, top-style terminal monitors, and larger network monitoring systems.

### Sources

- <https://sntop.sourceforge.net/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/sntop/>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/sntop/files/>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.sntoprc, /etc/sntoprc
## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Debian apt - sntop - 1.4.3-8: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: sntop from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | curses-based utility that polls hosts to determine connectivity | https://sourceforge.net/projects/sntop
- Ubuntu apt - sntop - 1.4.3-6: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: sntop from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | curses-based utility that polls hosts to determine connectivity | https://sourceforge.net/projects/sntop


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/sntop.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/sntop.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph