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Re: Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

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Post by amjd »

mryan wrote: post #13
amjd wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no installation, just git clone and move to your www directory. $ git clone https://github.com/afaqurk/linux-dash.git $ mv linux-dash/ /var/www/

That assumes you have a web server configured to serve PHP out of /var/www. At the very least you would want to put some access control in front of this.

> That assumes you have a web server configured to serve PHP out of /var/www.

The example was for Apache webserver.

> At the very least you would want to put some access control in front of this.

You're right, access control would be in order. Though I was merely suggesting the fastest way to try it out.

Re: Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

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Post by zaroth »

Be careful of any externally controllable strings which might allow XSS and give panel access to an attacker.

More of a problem for admin dashboards which have two-way control, which this one must if it can do on-demand refresh.

That's why I prefer munin static pages.

Re: Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

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Post by skyebook »

batuhanicoz wrote: post #4
ivansavz wrote: post #2

Very cool. How difficult would it be to create widgets that show application-level stats like number of visitors on site or conversion rates (e.g. calculated from google analytics). I'm tired of having to loging to google analytics, lulu.com, and gumroad in three different tabs....

Take a look at Dashing[0] by Shopify, it can be a base for what you want. There is already a Google Analytics plugin[1]. For Lulu.com, they are saying they are not accepting new developers[2] but if you have an API key, you may have luck building a widget for Dashing. [0] http://shopify.github.io/dashing/ [1] https://github.com/Shopify/dashing/wiki/Additional-Widgets [2] http://developer.lulu.com

Dashing is gorgeous and surprisingly easy to write widgets for.. Hardest part was getting the layouts right.

Re: Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

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Post by potash »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #23
k0 wrote: post #9

Not much different than conky...except the web service part. http://conky.sourceforge.net/

Can I use conky to monitor a remote server? I'd like that.

Of course! ssh -X. Obviously requires conky (and a minimal X server) on the server.

Re: Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

potash wrote: post #25
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I use conky to monitor a remote server? I'd like that.

Of course! ssh -X. Obviously requires conky (and a minimal X server) on the server.

Eh, I was hoping to do it without running x on the remote server.

Re: Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

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Post by mh- »

potash wrote: post #25
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I use conky to monitor a remote server? I'd like that.

Of course! ssh -X. Obviously requires conky (and a minimal X server) on the server.

no offense, I think that's effectively 'no'. :)

no one is running an X server on their production servers, perhaps unless somehow related to their actual purpose (screenshots, ui testing, etc.)

Re: Show HN: Linux server monitoring web dashboard

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Post by potash »

potash wrote: post #25
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I use conky to monitor a remote server? I'd like that.

Of course! ssh -X. Obviously requires conky (and a minimal X server) on the server.

P.S. I agree this is pointless. The best solution in my opinion is simply ssh and [h]top or glances.
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