System Monitor

An amazing system activity tracking and chart generation in PHP

Demo here

Debian package dependencies

• sysstat
• net-tools
• gawk
• iputils-ping
• procps
• mysql-server
• php5-mysqlnd

How to install

• Install required packages (using aptitude for example)
• Install and configure a http server
• Modify db/database.sql, shell/monitor_cron, www/monitor.php and shell/monitor.sh according to your needs
• Import db/database.sql into your database
• Insert filesystems and pinghosts into your database (see db/example.sql)
• Put shell/monitor.sh anywhere, chown root and chmod u+x it
• Put www/ content somewhere into your http server document directory
• Put shell/monitor_cron into /etc/cron.d/
• Do a service cron restart

Used libs

• jQuery
• Flot
• Bootstrap

Todo

• Rewrite Bash script in PHP-CLI
  • Wrap shell code using ShellWrap
  • Multiple DBMS support using PDO
• Use triggers instead of hardcoded preprocess requests
• Dynamic JS code generation
  • Use Ajax
• New trackers
  • Disk/IO
  • Net/IO
  • Iptables rules count (iptables-save | egrep "^-A" | wc -l)
• Finer configuration
• Admin interface
• Unprivileged user support
• Daemon instead of a cron job
• Standalone API for generic data gathering
  • OO refactoring
  • REST API
• Multiple system aggregation
• Downtime support